Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Common name
None
Family
Myrtaceae
Where found
Heath or shrubland associated with pagodas on sandstone, often in damp places. Wollemi National Park east of Kandos. Retricted to a roughly triangular area 5km in diameter.
Notes
Spreading shrub to 2 m high with fibrous-flaky bark. Leaves aromatic when rubbed, opposite each other, 0.4–0.6 cm long, 0.5–1 mm wide, sometimes more or less cylindrical, margins entire; tips blunt. Flowers white, 3–5 mm in diameter, with 5 petals. Sepals reddish, triangular. Flowers solitary. Flowers recorded December and January.
Endangered Australia. Endangered NSW.
Threatened species profile with photos: https://www.environment.nsw.gov.au/threatenedspeciesapp/profile.aspx?id=10086 (accessed 9 January 2021)
PlantNET description with line drawings and photos: https://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Baeckea~kandos (accessed 9 January 2021)
Description partly based on Bean, A.R. (17 December 1997), A revision of Baeckea (Myrtaceae) in eastern Australia, Malesia and south-east Asia. Telopea 7(3): 260, fig. 4, g-i.
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