Synonymy: L. juniperinum sensu J. Black, Fl. S. Aust. 603 (1964).

Common name: Prickly tea-tree.

Description:
Straggling slender shrub, 1-2 or more m high, the young stems with a conspicuous flange below the node; leaves usually narrow-lanceolate, occasionally oblanceolate, 5-15 mm long, glabrescent, the margins incurved and often scabrous, the apex tapering to a pungent point.

Flowers c. 10 mm diam., borne on short leafy, or occasionally leafless, side-shoots; bracts broad, red-brown and very deciduous; hypanthium usually glabrous, broad and rounded above a very short narrow base; sepals c. 1.5 mm long, ovate-oblong; petals broadly obovate, white or flushed pink; stamens 1.5-2 mm long; ovary 5-celled, with c. 60 ovules in 6 rows in each cell.

fruit 6-7 mm diam., persistent, the outer surface firm and woody; fertile seeds 2-3 mm long, very narrowly linear-cuneate, their surface longitudinally striate.

Published illustration: Costermans (1981) Native trees and shrubs of south-eastern Australia, p. 240 as L. juniperinum.

Distribution:  In forest or open sandy, swampy places.   N.S.W.; Vic. Conservation status: native Flowering time: Oct. — Jan.

SA Distribution Map based on current data relating to specimens held in the State Herbarium of South Australia

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