Leptospermum namadgiense
Leptospermum namadgiense is a species of small shrub that is endemic to areas near the border between New South Wales and the Australian Capital Territory. It has silky-hairy, narrow lance-shaped to elliptical leaves, usually white flowers borne singly or in pairs on short side shoots, and fruit that falls from the plant shortly after the seeds are released. Description. "Leptospermum namadgiense" is a shrub that typically grows to a height of . It has thin, rough bark that is shed in strips or in flaky layers on the older stems, and young stems that are softly-hairy  at first. The leaves are narrow lance-shaped to elliptical, long and wide, tapering to a petiole about long. The leaves are usually covered on both surfaces by silky white hairs. The flowers are borne singly or in pairs on short side shoots, and are white, sometimes with a pink tinge and wide. The floral cup is about long and covered with silky white hairs. The sepals are triangular, about long, the petals long. There are between seven and eleven stamens. Flowering mainly occurs from December to January and the fruit is a hairy capsule wide with the remains of  the sepals attached but that falls from the plant after the seeds are released. Taxonomy and naming. "Leptospermum namadgiense" was first formally described in 1993 by Andrew M. Lyne in the journal "Telopea" from specimens he collected on Mt Scabby in 1992. The specific epithet ("namadgiense") is from the name "namadgi" used by local Aboriginal people for the mountains south-west of Canberra. Distribution and habitat. This tea-tree usually grows in shrubland and woodland on exposed rocky ridges and mountaintops in the Namadgi National Park and Scabby Range Nature Reserve at altitudes between .