Family: Myrtaceae
Leptospermum fastigiatum
Citation:
S. Moore, J. Linn. Soc.(Bot.) 45:201 (1920). Shrub, 1 to more than 2 m high, with numerous slender erect branches, the young stems tuberculate; leaves usually very narrowly obovate, 5-12 mm long, silky, glabrescent, flat or with the margins somewhat incurved, and with a small apical point.
Synonymy: L. roei sensu A.S. George in Jessop, Fl. Cent. Aust. 257, fig. 337 (1981).
Common name: None
Description:
Flowers 6-10 mm diam., borne on very short axillary shoots; bracts broad, red-brown and very deciduous; hypanthium silky, expanded in the upper part and gradually tapering to the base; sepals c. 1.5 mm long, long-deltoid; petals obovate to broadly elliptic, white; stamens c. 1 mm long; ovary 3-celled, with c. 20 ovules in 4 rows in each cell.
Fruit c. 3 mm diam., readily deciduous, the outer surface papery but close; fertile seeds c. 1 mm long, ovate-cuneate, their surface reticulate.
Distribution:
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On sand-plain.
S.Aust.: NW. W.Aust.
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Conservation status:
native
Flowering time: Sept. — Dec.
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SA Distribution Map based
on current data relating to
specimens held in the
State Herbarium of South Australia
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Biology:
Not Applicable
Author:
Not yet available
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