Leptospermum glabrescens

Shrub or tree to 6 m high; bark on smaller stems smooth, shedding in stringy strips. Leaves linear or elliptic to narrowly obovate, 8–13 mm long, 2–3 mm wide, glabrous (although sometimes hairs persisting along the margins); apex acute to shortly acuminate, flat to incurved; margins flat to incurved. Flowers c. 12 mm diam.; hypanthium c. 3 mm long, villous, sessile; sepals triangular, c. 2 mm long, rounded, villous on outer surface, persisting on fruit; petals 3.5–4.5 mm long, white; ovary 5-locular, apex glabrous. Fruit broadly hemispherical, persistent, 6–7 mm diam., surface ultimately shedding in papery flakes, valves woody; seeds c. 2 mm long, with a linear-striate surface pattern. Flowers Sep.–Jan.