Plants of South Eastern New South Wales

Kunzea cambagei

Flowers and leaves. Australian Plant Image Index, photographer Murray Fagg, Australian National Botanic Gardens, Canberra, ACT

Flowering branches. Australian Plant Image Index, photographer Murray Fagg, Australian National Botanic Gardens, Canberra, ACT

Shrub. Australian Plant Image Index, photographer Murray Fagg, Australian National Botanic Gardens, Canberra, ACT

Common name

Cambage kunzea

Family

Myrtaceae

Where found

Wet heath and open shrubland, often on rocky outcrops. Ranges north of Wombeyan Caves. Tablelands west of Berrima.

Notes

Shrub, mat forming, to 1 m tall. Young stems hairy. Leaves sweetly scented when rubbed, alternating along the stems, 0.3-0.8 cm long, 1.5-3 mm wide, tips blunt, surfaces appressed-hairy with fine hairs, becoming hairless with age. Flowers white to cream or yellowish, with 5 petals 1-1.5 mm long, stamens 2.5-3 mm long, in head-like clusters. Flowers Spring.

Vulnerable Australia. Vulnerable NSW. Provisions of the Biodiversity Conservation Act 2016 No 63 relating to the protection of protected plants generally also apply to plants that are a threatened species.

NSW Department of Environment & Heritage Threatened Species profile:  http://www.environment.nsw.gov.au/threatenedSpeciesApp/profile.aspx?id=10446 (accessed 6 January, 2021)

PlantNET description:  http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Kunzea~cambagei (accessed 6 January, 2021)