Slender Burgan

Kunzea phylicoides is a graceful, erect shrub which typically grows to a height of 3 m (10 ft) and has drooping branches and fibrous or corky bark. The leaves are linear to narrow lance-shaped, 7–25 mm (0.3–1 in) long and 1–2 mm (0.04–0.08 in) wide on a petiole 0.5–1 mm (0.02–0.04 in) long. The flowers are arranged singly or in groups of up to three in the upper leaf axils, each flower on a pedicel 3–6 mm (0.1–0.2 in) long. There are no bracts or bracteoles at the base of the flower. The sepals are green, reddish near the base, triangular and 1–1.5 mm (0.04–0.06 in) long. The petals are white, more or less round, 1.5–2.5 mm (0.06–0.1 in) long and there usually 25 to 35 white stamens that are 1–4 mm (0.04–0.2 in) long with some shorter than the petals. The style is 1.5–2.5 mm (0.059–0.098 in) long. Flowering mostly occurs from November to February and the fruit is 2.5–4 mm (0.1–0.2 in) long, 3–5 mm (0.1–0.2 in) wide and not woody. Kunzea phylicoides is similar K. ericoides but has a more graceful habit, leafy groups of flowers and about twice as many stamens. It sometimes hybridises with K. peduncularis. The National Herbarium of New South Wales lists K. phylicoides as Kunzea ericoides.

Kunzea phylicoides occurs in New South Wales, the Australian Capital Territory and along the Snowy River and its major tributaries in Victoria to near Buchan.

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