Kunzea cambagei Maiden & Betche APNI* 
Description: Prostrate or ascending shrub to 0.6 m high; young stems silky.
Leaves elliptic to obovate, 3–8 mm long, 1.5–3 mm wide, apex obtuse, finely appressed-hairy, glabrescent with age; petiole c. 0.5 mm long.
Flowers cream to yellowish, sessile, in head-like clusters at end of branches. Hypanthium silky. Sepals triangular, to 1 mm long. Petals 1–1.5 mm long. Stamens 2.5–3 mm long. Ovary 2-locular, placentation apical; style 3–3.5 mm long.
Fruit 3 mm long, 1.5 mm diam., indehiscent.
Flowering: spring.
Distribution and occurrence: Found at scattered locations, from the Newnes Plateau south to an area west of Canyonleigh. Grows in heath.
NSW subdivisions: CT
Threatened species: NSW BCA: Vulnerable; Commonwealth EPBC: Vulnerable
Text by Peter G. Wilson. Distribution revised Nov 2019.
Taxon concept: Flora of NSW 2 (1991)
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