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''Leptospermum'' (Greek, slender seed). Myrtaceae. Ornamental woody plants grown chiefly for their copiously produced flowers and also for the neat myrtle-like foliage.

Leptospermum (Greek, slender seed). Myrtaceae. Ornamental woody plants grown chiefly for their copiously produced flowers and also for the neat myrtle-like foliage.

Evergreen shrubs or small trees: leaves alternate, small, rigid, entire, nerveless or 1-3-nerved: flowers short-stalked or sessile, solitary or 2—3, axillary or at the end of short branchlets; sepals short and broad; petals roundish, clawed, spreading; stamens many; ovary inferior, enclosed in the calyx-tube, 3-10-celled; style short: fruits a loculicidal caps., usually protruding above the calyx-tube; seeds numerous, linear, or few and compressed and winged.—There are about 25 species mostly in Australia, few in New Zealand and in the Malay Archipelago.

Evergreen shrubs or small trees: leaves alternate, small, rigid, entire, nerveless or 1-3-nerved: flowers short-stalked or sessile, solitary or 2—3, axillary or at the end of short branchlets; sepals short and broad; petals roundish, clawed, spreading; stamens many; ovary inferior, enclosed in the calyx-tube, 3-10-celled; style short: fruits a loculicidal caps., usually protruding above the calyx-tube; seeds numerous, linear, or few and compressed and winged.—There are about 25 species mostly in Australia, few in New Zealand and in the Malay Archipelago.

==Species==

==Species==

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*L. flexuosum, Spreng. (Agonis flexuosa, Schauer). Tall shrub or tree, to 40 ft.: branchlets at first pubescent, finally glabrous: leaves lanceolate or linear-lanceolate. 3-nerved, 1/4 - 1/2 in. long: flowers white, Over 1/3 in. across, in axillary heads: calyx pubescent, stamens 20. Auatral.—This species is now generally referred to Agonis which differs from Leptospermum chiefly in the capitate infl. and in the cells of the ovary having only 2-6 ovules ascending from a basal placenta.

==Gallery==

==Gallery==