Leptospermum sejunctum Joy Thomps. APNI* 
Description: Shrub 1–1.5 m high, with close grey bark, younger stems almost glabrous.
Leaves aromatic, oblanceolate to elliptic, 10–20 mm long, 3–4 mm wide, flat, thick glands prominent; apex tapering, point blunt and folded; base tapering; sessile.
Flowers apparently solitary. Hypanthium glands conspicuous, c. 2 mm long. Sepals c. 2 mm long, mostly glabrous. Petals not seen. Stamens c. 2 mm long. Ovary 5-locular.
Fruit c. 8 mm diam., pedicel absent in older fruit, valves rarely extended beyond the rim.
Flowering: : not known.
Distribution and occurrence: Grows in dry sclerophyll forest on sandy soil over sandstone, confined to the Nowra district.
NSW subdivisions: CC, SC
Text by J. Thompson & V. Logan
Taxon concept: Flora of NSW 2 (1991)
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