Accepted name: Sannantha pluriflora
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: (2002). Myrtaceae. In: . 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.
Babingtonia virgata 'Clarence River'
Shrub to 2 m tall with pendulous branches, narrow linear leaves and white flowers.
Babingtonia virgata 'Compacta'
Fine foliage and small white flowers.
Babingtonia virgata 'Howie's Feathertips'
Dense shrub with fine weeping foliage.Originated in the 1970s.
Babingtonia virgata 'Howie's Sweet Midget'
Compact, dwarf habit. Originated in the 1970s.
Babingtonia virgata 'La Petite'
Habit low and spreading. Originated in the 1980s.
Babingtonia virgata 'Miniature'
A dense cushion plant that originated in Qld in the mid-1980s.
Babingtonia virgata 'White Cascade'
Flowering prolific in summer, then again in autumn.
