Leptospermum myrtifolium

Slender, grey or silvery shrub to 2 m high; bark on smaller stems smooth, shedding in stringy strips. Young stems with a groove or a narrow flange near base of petiole. Leaves elliptic to obovate, 6–10 mm long, 3–4 mm wide, glabrous or silky on both surfaces; apex obtuse to acute, flat to incurved; margins flat to incurved. Flowers 8–10 mm diam.; hypanthium 2–3 mm long, silky; pedicel to 1 mm long; sepals triangular, c. 1 mm long, silky on outer surface, deciduous; petals c. 4 mm long, white; ovary 4- or 5-locular, apex glabrous. Fruit persistent, hemispherical to broadly hemispherical, 4–6 mm diam., surface ultimately shedding in papery flakes, valves woody; seeds c. 2 mm long, with a linear-striate surface pattern. Flowers Jan.–Mar.