Prostrate to procumbent shrub to c. 30 cm high, rarely more; young stems appressed-hairy. Leaves usually opposite, more or less terete, crowded, 3–8 mm long, c. 0.5 mm wide, pubescent when young, becoming glabrous; apex obtuse; margins involute; petiole c. 0.5 mm long. Flowers yellow, sessile, in head-like terminal clusters; floral bracts narrow, acute, villous; hypanthium villous; sepals brown, triangular, c. 1.5 mm long, villous; petals orbicular, 2–3 mm diam.; stamens yellow, 2–5 mm long; style 4.5–6 mm long; ovary usually 3-celled. Fruit 3.5–4 mm long, c. 3 mm diam., not woody, dehiscent by terminal valves. Flowers Nov.–Jan.
VRiv, GipP, GGr, NIS, EGU, HSF, HNF, VAlp. Also NSW, ACT. Common in alpine heathland, particularly in rocky areas, and sometimes forming almost pure, extensive stands.
Source:
Jeanes, J.A. (1996). Myrtaceae. In: Walsh, N.G.; Entwisle, T.J., Flora of Victoria Vol. 3, Dicotyledons Winteraceae to Myrtaceae, pp. 942–1044. Inkata Press, Melbourne.
