Leptospermum continentale

Shrub to 2 m high; bark on smaller stems smooth, shedding in stringy strips. Young stems with a broad flange near base of petiole. Leaves narrowly ovate, 5–13 mm long, 1–3.5 mm wide, broadest near the base, glabrous; apex subulate, incurved, pungent; margins incurved (rarely flat), minutely denticulate. Flowers 8–12 mm diam.; hypanthium c. 2–2.5 mm long, glabrous; pedicel to 1 mm long; sepals narrowly triangular to triangular, c. 1.5 mm long, glabrous on outer surface, deciduous; petals 3–5 mm long, usually white; ovary 5-locular, apex glabrous. Fruit persistent, broadly hemispherical, 5–8 mm diam., surface ultimately shedding in papery flakes and becoming rough, valves woody; seeds 2–3 mm long, with a linear-striate surface pattern. Flowers Sep.–Feb.