Variable shrub to about 3 m tall. Leaves lanceolate to elliptic or oblanceolate, 1-2.5 cm long, 1-6 mm wide, margins entire. Flowers in clusters of 3-7; spring to late summer. Sepals triangular. Petals roundish, to 2.5 mm long. Stamens 5-7. Fruit a capsule about 2 mm wide. Syn. Baeckea virgata (Forst. & Forst. f.) Andr.

A species subject to recent revision.

New Caledonia, Qld, NSW, Vic.

Bean (1999).

Source: Spencer, R. (2002). Myrtaceae. In: Spencer, R.. Horticultural Flora of South-eastern Australia. Volume 3. Flowering plants. Dicotyledons. Part 2. The identification of garden and cultivated plants. University of New South Wales Press. (as Babingtonia virgata)