Leptospermum namadgiense

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Etymology:   

• The specific epithet (namadgiense) is from the name "namadgi" used by local Aboriginal people for the mountains south-west of Canberra

Flowers

• The flowers are borne singly or in pairs on short side shoots, and are white, sometimes with a pink tinge and 6–10 mm wide

• The floral cup is about 2.5 mm long and covered with silky white hair

•  The sepals are triangular, about 1.5 mm long, the petals 2.5–3 mm long

• There are between seven and eleven stamens

• Flowering mainly occurs from December to January 

Fruit:                            

• A hairy capsule 2–2.5 mm wide with the remains of the sepals attached but they fall from the plant after the seeds are released

Leaves:         

• The leaves are narrow lance-shaped to elliptical, 3.5–9 mm long and 1.5–4 mm wide, tapering to a petiole about 1 mm long

• The leaves are usually covered on both surfaces by silky white hairs

Stem & branches: 

• It has thin, rough bark that is shed in strips or in flaky layers on the older stems, and young stems that are softly-hairy at first

Roots:         

Habit:        

• A shrub that typically grows to a height of 0.5–1 m 

Habitat:   

• Usually grows in shrubland and woodland on exposed rocky ridges and mountaintops at altitudes between 1,500 and 1,820 m

Distribution:                  

• In the Namadgi National Park and Scabby Range Nature Reserve 

Additional notes:  

• Taxonomy 

  • This species was first formally described in 1993 by Andrew M. Lyne who gave it the name Leptospermum namadgiensein the journal Telopea from specimens he collected on Mt Scabby in 1992

  • In 2023, Peter Gordon Wilson transferred the species to the genus Gaudium as G. namadgiense in the journal Taxon

Sources of information:

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaudium_namadgiense (2023)