Nomenclature
Scientific Name:
Gaudium laevigatum (Gaertn.) Peter G.Wilson in Wilson & Heslewood, Taxon 17 (online) (2023)
Synonymy:
  • Fabricia laevigata Gaertn. (1788)
  • Leptospermum laevigatum (Gaertn.) F.Muell. (1858)
Holotype: New South Wales, Banks & Solander s.n. (BM barcode BM014118031; isotypes: MEL barcode MEL 727238, NSW barcodes NSW133484, NSW171089)
 Description

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.

[From: Webb et al. (1988) Flora of New Zealand. Volume 4. as Leptospermum laevigatum (Gaertn.) F.Muell.]

 Biostatus
Exotic
 Bibliography
Biosecurity New Zealand 2012: Regional Pest Management Strategies Database. http://www.biosecurityperformance.maf.govt.nz/ [as Leptospermum laevigatum (Gaertn.) F.Muell.]
Thompson, J. 1989: A revision of the genus Leptospermum (Myrtaceae). Telopea 3(3): 301–448. [as Leptospermum laevigatum (Gaertn.) F.Muell.]
Wilson, P.G.; Heslewood, M.M. 2023: Revised taxonomy of the tribe Leptospermeae (Myrtaceae) based on morphological and DNA data. Taxon: 1–22 (online). (Published online: 03 May 2023 (https://doi.org/10.1002/tax.12892))