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Kunzea (Gustav Kunze, 1793-1851, German botanist). Myrtaceae. Australian shrubs, sometimes grown in cool or temperate houses: often heath-like, the small entire lvs. mostly alternate: fls. small with extending stamens, in the upper axils or in terminal heads or in a spike below the end of the branch; calyx with 5 small lobes; petals 5, spreading, small; stamens many, free or in series, the filaments filiform; ovary 2-5-cclled, 2 to many ovules in each cell. The species are 15-20, allied to Callistemon, Leptospermum, and formerly included in Metrosideros. The cult, requirements of Callistemon (p. 630) will probably suit them. K. pomifera, F. Muell., has been mentioned as a fruit-plant (G.C. III. 5:201; copied in A.G. 1889: 127), Mueller saying that it is one of the few really valuable fruit-plants indigenous at the south coast of Austral. "The fruits are of a peculiar acidulous aromatic taste, and very extensively collected by people settled on the coast for the purpose of jam-making." It is described by Bentham as a rigid prostrate shrub: lvs. ovate, varying from nearly orbicular and almost cordate to narrow and acute-based, mostly less than
1/3 in. long: fls. white or yellowish, sessile and not numerous but yet forming dense terminal heads becoming lateral by elongation of the branch; stamens numerous, 3 or 4 times as long as the small petals: berry blue, 1/3 in. or less diam., crowned by the calyx-lobes. Victoria and S. Austral. L.H.B.
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{{Taxobox
| color = lightgreen
| name = ''Kunzea''
| image = Leptospermum phylicoides 3.jpg
| image_width = 250px
| image_caption = ''Kunzea ericoides''
| regnum = [[Plant]]ae
| divisio = [[flowering plant|Magnoliophyta]]
| classis = [[dicotyledon|Magnoliopsida]]
| ordo = [[Myrtales]]
| familia = [[Myrtaceae]]
| genus = '''''Kunzea'''''
| genus_authority = [[George Bentham|Benth.]]
| subdivision_ranks = Species
| subdivision = 
See text.
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'''''Kunzea''''' is a genus of 36-40 species of [[shrub]] in the myrtle family [[Myrtaceae]]. They are endemic to [[Australia]] with one species extending to [[New Zealand]]. They are found throughout the Australian continent with most species occurring in southwestern [[Western Australia]]. In appearance they resemble the closely-related  ''[[Callistemon]]'' genus, but differ in the arrangement of the [[stamen]]s.

Several species of ''Kunzea'' are [[Invasive Plants|weeds]] in the [[fynbos]] regions of southern [[South Africa]]

===Species===
Include
* ''[[Kunzea ambigua]]''
* ''[[Kunzea baxteri]]''
* ''[[Kunzea bracteolata]]''
* ''[[Kunzea cambagei]]''
* ''[[Kunzea capitata]]''
* ''[[Kanuka|Kunzea ericoides]]''
* ''[[Kunzea flavescens]]''
* ''[[Kunzea muelleri]]''
* ''[[Kunzea obovata]]''
* ''[[Kunzea opposita]]''
* ''[[Kunzea parviflora]]''
* ''[[Kunzea parvifolia]]''
* ''[[Kunzea parvifolium]]''
* ''[[Kunzea pomifera]]''
* ''[[Kunzea pulchella]]''

==External links==
*[http://farrer.riv.csu.edu.au/ASGAP/k-bax.html Photograph and description of the genus]

[[Category:Myrtales of Australia]]
[[Category:Myrtaceae]]

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