Kunzea triregensis

Description

Shrubs or trees up to 18 × 3 m.Trunk 1–4,0.10–0.85 m d.b.h.Bark grey or grey-brown,± elongate,tessellated,usually bearing a few transverse cracks,firmly attached,detaching basally with age,and peeling upwards along trunk in broad,tabular strips.Branches numerous;upright to somewhat spreading;branchlets numerous,slender;branchlets sericeous,indumentum copious;hairs long appressed,usually flexuose (220–)480(–520) μm long.Leaves sessile;lamina 6.0–13.5 × 1.1–2.3 mm,dark glossy green above,paler beneath with leaf margins and midrib appearing distinctly white because of dense hair growth;lamina lanceolate to narrowly lanceolate;usually strongly recurved for about half of total length;apex acute to narrowly acute,base attenuate;lamina margin completely obscured by dense covering of antrorse-appressed hairs aligned in a thick,up to 0.6 mm wide,almost plumose,white band meeting at leaf apex.Inflorescence an elongated 3–20-flowered botryum up to 200 mm long,basal portion sometimes bearing compact,lateral 3-flowered corymbiform botrya,or with the basal and terminal portions occasionally bearing lateral elongate botyra;distal portions often interrupted by sections of leafy perules between which are spaced further flowers;or interrupted by short floral shoots bearing elongated 3–6-flowered botrya up to 20 mm long;terminal portion often bearing undeveloped flowers and vegetative terminal growth.Inflorescence axis densely invested in antrorse-appressed,weakly flexuose,hairs.Pherophylls persistent,foliose,6.0–12.8 × 0.9–2.2 mm,dark glossy green,elliptic,broadly lanceolate to lanceolate;apex acute,base attenuate;lamina margin obscured by dense covering of antrorse-appressed,silky hairs.Pedicels subsessile to pedicellate 0.4–3.7 mm long copiously invested in antrorse-appressed,weakly flexuose,silky hairs.Flower buds double-conic to ovoid,calyx lobes prior to bud burst held flat or suberect with lobes ± meeting.