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Leptospermum juniperinum Sm.
Family Myrtaceae
Common name: Prickly Tea-tree

Leptospermum juniperinum Sm. APNI*

Synonyms: Leptospermum aciculare S.Schauer APNI*

Description: A shrub 2–3 m high, bark close, younger stems often with long fine appressed hairs.

Leaves usually narrow-elliptic or narrow-lanceolate, mostly 5–15 mm long, usually 1–2 mm wide, some incurving in upper part, silvery-silky but soon glabrescent; apex almost terete, point pungent; base usually little tapering, petiole ± absent.

Flowers usually solitary, 6–10 mm diam., white. Hypanthium 2–2.5 mm long, pedicel-like base to 0.5 mm long. Stamens 1–1.5 mm long. Ovary 5-locular.

Fruit 5–7 mm diam., valves spreading to equal or exceed the rim.


Herbarium
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Flowering: irregularly, mostly November

Distribution and occurrence: and Dec. Grows in swamp, heath and sedgeland in sandy peat soils and on sandstone escarpments, north from Ulladulla.
NSW subdivisions: NC, CC, SC, CT, ST
Other Australian states: Qld
AVH map***

Text by J. Thompson & V. Logan
Taxon concept: Flora of NSW 2 (1991)


APNI* Provides a link to the Australian Plant Name Index (hosted by the Australian National Botanic Gardens) for comprehensive bibliographic data
***The AVH map option provides a detailed interactive Australia wide distribution map drawn from collections held by all major Australian herbaria participating in the Australian Virtual Herbarium project.
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