Leptospermum turbinatum

Shrub to 3 m high; bark on smaller stems smooth or becoming rough. Leaves elliptic to narrowly obovate, 10–25 mm long, 3–8 mm wide, flat, finally glabrous (rarely a few appressed silky hairs persisting); apex shortly acuminate to acuminate, flat to incurved; petiole 1–2 mm long. Flowers c. 25 mm diam.; hypanthium c. 5 mm long, silky to villous, sessile; sepals narrowly triangular, 4.5–6.5 mm long, acute, silky on outer surface, persisting on fruit; petals 8–10 mm long, white; ovary 5-locular, apex glabrous. Fruit persistent, obconical, 7–12 mm diam., surface ultimately shedding in papery flakes (and becoming gnarled), valves woody; seeds 3–3.5 mm long, with a linear-striate surface pattern. Flowers Oct.–Dec.