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{{Inc| 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. }} {{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. }} '''''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]] {{rosid-stub}}

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