Leptospermum riparium 

Location & distribution maps

Phylogeny & links to associated information:

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Plant  information

Common name:         Riverine Tea Tree  

Conservation status: ...

Etymology:   

• The specific epithet (riparium) is from a Latin word meaning "inhabiting river banks"

Flowers

• Relatively large white flowers 

• The flowers are white, 15–20 mm wide and arranged on the ends of leafy side branches

• There are reddish-brown bracts and bracteoles at the base of the flower buds but that usually fall off before the flower opens

• The floral cup is about 4 mm long with triangular sepals about 4 mm long

• The petals are 8 or 9 mm long and the stamens about 4 m long

• Flowering mainly occurs in January and the fruit is a capsule 6–8 mm wide with the remains of the sepals attached and that remains on the plant at maturity

Fruit:                            

• Fruit that remain on the plant when mature

Leaves:         

• The leaves are mostly glabrous, lance-shaped with the narrower end towards the base

• Usually 10–25 mm long and 2–4 mm wide

• The base tapering to a thin petiole

Stem & branches: 

• Has flaky bark

Roots:         

Habit:        

• A straggly shrub that typically grows to a height of 3 m or more and has flaky bark

Habitat:   

• The riverine tea-tree grows along major rivers in rainforests

Distribution:                  

• Endemic to southern and eastern Tasmania

Additional notes:     

• Taxonomy 

  • Leptospermum riparium was first formally described in 1974 by Tasmanian botanist Dennis Ivor Morris in Records of the Queen Victoria Museum, based on specimens he collected near the bridge over the Huon River in the Tahune Forest Park

Sources of information:

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