Plants of South Eastern New South Wales

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Leptospermum sejunctum

Common name

Bomaderry tea-tree

Family

Myrtaceae

Where found

Dry forest and woodland, often near streams. Coast and ranges between Jervis Bay and the Nowra district.

Notes

Shrub to 2.5 m tall. Bark rough and finely fissured. Younger stems with a conspicuous flange tending to curve about the stem, barely longer than the leaf base. Stems almost hairless. Leaves aromatic when rubbed, alternating up the stems, mostly 1-2 cm long, 3-4 mm wide, flat, thick, glands prominent; tips tapering, point blunt and folded; bases tapering, stalkless. Flowers with 5 white petals. Nuts persisting, about 8 mm in diameter but variable in size.

PlantNET description:  http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Leptospermum~sejunctum (accessed 22 January, 2021)

Additional information in: Thompson, J. (8 December 1989), A revision of the genus Leptospermum (Myrtaceae). Telopea 3(3): 407-408, map 7-51