Kunzea peduncularis

Dense, erect shrub, usually 1–2 m high, sometimes single-stemmed and over 4 m high; bark on young stems shedding on oblong flakes, older stems usually peeling in papery strips, young stems minutely pubescent. Leaves alternate, obovate to oblanceolate, spreading, 5–13 mm long, 2–3.5 mm wide, bright green to grey-green, minutely pubescent to glabrescent, hairs often restricted to leaf margins, more or less flat; apex obtuse to acuminate; margins entire; petiole 0.5–1 mm long. Flowers white, crowded in upper leaf axils or on leafy side branches; pedicels 3–5 mm long, pubescent, sometimes glabrescent; floral bracts absent; hypanthium pubescent, sometimes glabrescent, rugulose, 2.5–3.5 mm long; sepals green, reddish at base, triangular, 1–1.5 mm long; petals orbicular, c. 1.5–2.5 mm diam.; stamens white, usually 50–64, 1–4 mm long, rarely with a few stamens shorter than petals; style 1.5–2.5 mm long; ovary usually 3-celled, sometimes 4- or 5-celled. Fruit c. 3.5 mm long, c. 4 mm diam., not woody, dehiscent by terminal valves. Flowers Nov.–Jan.