Plants of South Eastern New South Wales

Leptospermum sejunctum

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

Flowering stems and nuts. Photographer Don Wood, Bomaderry Creek Regional Park near Nowra

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