Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Kunzea rupestris
Common name
A kunzea
Family
Myrtaceae
Where found
Heath and shrubland on rock platforms. Northern part of the Sydney area.
Notes
Clonal shrub to 1.5 m high. Young stems hairy. Leaves aromatic when rubbed. Leaves alternating up the stems, 0.6–1.1 cm long, 1.5–3 mm wide, hairy to more or less hairless, tips pointed. New leaves hairy. Flowers with 5 white to cream petals each 1–1.5 mm long. Stamens white, 5 mm long. Hypanthium densely covered with long shaggy hairs. Flowers in head-like clusters at the ends of the branches. Flowering: spring.
Hybridises with Kunzea capitata subsp. capitata.
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 Threatened Species profile: http://www.environment.nsw.gov.au/threatenedspeciesapp/profile.aspx?id=10447 (accessed 6 January, 2021)
PlantNET description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Kunzea~rupestris (accessed 6 January, 2021)
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