Kunzea phylicoides
Kunzea phylicoides, commonly known as the slender burgan, is a flowering plant in the myrtle family, Myrtaceae and is endemic to south-eastern mainland Australia. It is an erect shrub with drooping branches, fibrous or corky bark, bright green, narrow leaves and clusters of white flowers in spring.
Description
Kunzea phylicoides is a graceful, erect shrub which typically grows to a height of and has drooping branches and fibrous or corky bark. The leaves are linear to narrow lance-shaped, long and wide on a petiole long. The flowers are arranged singly or in groups of up to three in the upper leaf axils, each flower on a pedicel long. There are no bracts or bracteoles at the base of the flower. The sepals are green, reddish near the base, triangular and long. The petals are white, more or less round, long and there usually 25 to 35 white stamens that are long with some shorter than the petals. The style is long. Flowering mostly occurs from November to February and the fruit is long, wide and not woody.Kunzea phylicoides is similar K. ericoides but has a more graceful habit, leafy groups of flowers and about twice as many stamens. It sometimes hybridises with K. peduncularis.
The National Herbarium of [New South Wales] lists K. phylicoides as Kunzea ericoides.