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Leptospermum laevigatum (Gaertn.) F.Muell.

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(Gaertn.) F.Muell.
Gaertn.
F.Muell.
1858
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species
Leptospermum laevigatum

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laevigatum

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Leptospermum laevigatum (Gaertn.) F.Muell.

Shrub or small tree 1-2-(7) m high. Bark peeling in thin strips. Branchlets and lvs silky-hairy when very young, soon glabrous. Lvs glabrous except when very young, subsessile or very shortly petiolate, spreading to erect. Lamina 17-30 × 5-9 mm, oblong-obovate or almost oblong, dotted with numerous minute dark glands; main longitudinal veins 3 or 5; base cuneate; apex mucronulate but otherwise blunt. Fls axillary, subsessile, solitary. Bracts and bracteoles brown and papery. Hypanthium c. 3 mm long, broad-campanulate; calyx lobes c. 2 mm long, triangular, ± caducous, with margin and back ± clothed in silky white hairs. Petals 6-8 mm long, suborbicular or broad-ovate, white, patent. Stamens c. 20, ± = style. Ovary apex clothed in fine, dense, appressed, white hairs; style stout. Capsule 7-10-celled, c. 6 mm wide., broad and flat-topped, woody, long-persistent, exserted beyond receptacle rim. Seeds numerous; sterile seeds linear, wingless; fertile seeds larger, ovate, with lamellate wings.

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Leptospermum laevigatum (Gaertn.) F.Muell.
Leptospermum laevigatum (Gaertn.) F.Muell.
Leptospermum laevigatum (Gaertn.) F.Muell.
Leptospermum laevigatum (Gaertn.) F.Muell.
Leptospermum laevigatum (Gaertn.) F.Muell.
Leptospermum laevigatum (Gaertn.) F.Muell.
Leptospermum laevigatum (Gaertn.) F.Muell.
Leptospermum laevigatum (Gaertn.) F.Muell.
Leptospermum laevigatum (Gaertn.) F.Muell.
Leptospermum laevigatum (Gaertn.) F.Muell.

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Leptospermum laevigatum (Gaertn.) F.Muell.
New Zealand
Canterbury Land District
Leptospermum laevigatum (Gaertn.) F.Muell.
New Zealand
Hawke's Bay Land District
Leptospermum laevigatum (Gaertn.) F.Muell.
New Zealand
Nelson Land District
Leptospermum laevigatum (Gaertn.) F.Muell.
New Zealand
Taranaki Land District
Leptospermum laevigatum (Gaertn.) F.Muell.
New Zealand
Wellington Land District
Leptospermum laevigatum (Gaertn.) F.Muell.
United States

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91d74963-f719-42f2-9028-45987375a4cb
scientific name
Names_Plants
1 January 2000
12 June 2023
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