Woolly Teatree, Mountain Tea-tree at Numeralla, NSW
Identification history
| Leptospermum grandifolium | 26 Dec 2019 | MichaelMulvaney | ||
| Leptospermum grandifolium | 26 Dec 2019 | BettyDonWood | ||
| Leptospermum lanigerum | 23 Dec 2019 | JaneR |
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User's notes
Identified as L. lanigerum rather than L. grandifolium on the basis of leaf shape (more linear) and (glabrous on both surfaces).
Occurring on floodplain beside Numeralla River, but set back from river.
Most were wholly or partly senescent (brown leaves only) and in very poor condition, presumably stressed by dry conditions: a few had just one or two branches still with green leaves, and were flowering. Some closer to river were not so stressed.
4 comments
BettyDonWood
wrote:
25 Dec 2019
I tend to think it is grandifolium because of the way the bark is peeling off in strips. Lanigerum has compact bark. My reading of the Plantnet descriptions and of the couplet in the key also suggests grandifolium (leaves 3-7 mm wide, lower surface felted to glabrous). Lanigerum has leaves 2-4 mm wide and the leaves pubescent at least on the lower surfaces. Both species can occur along streams.
JaneR
wrote:
25 Dec 2019
Hi Betty, I was working with the Flora Vic on line, but have little field experience of either.
BettyDonWood
wrote:
25 Dec 2019
The two species are difficult to tell apart. My original thought was lanigerum because in my experience lanigerum is at lower altitudes and on stream banks while grandifolium is at higher altitude in rocky areas but the bark cannot be other than grandifolium. Vicflora certainly in general has much more detailed descriptions. The keys in both Vicflora and Plantnet are about as easy/hard to use as each other, when they don’t both copy from the original species description.
JackieMiles
wrote:
26 Dec 2019
I agree, grandifolium, as the leaves look too hairless and wide for lanigerum (off the top of my head), plus the peeling bark. I think there must be bits of the tablelands where they both occur along creeks and rivers, inconveniently, although in my experience the preferred habitat of grandifolium is small shaded drainage lines in high altitude forest (say 1000m and upwards) and around the edge of montane bogs.
Location information
- Coordinates 149.347931-36.175994
- Altitude 735.1m
- Places Numeralla, NSW
Sighting information
- 16 - 100 Abundance
- 22 Dec 2019 01:50 PM Recorded on
- JaneR Recorded by
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Plants Other Shrubs JaneR
Additional information
- True In flower
- 1 metre to 5 metres Plant height
Species information
- Leptospermum grandifolium Scientific name
- Woolly Teatree, Mountain Tea-tree Common name
- Not Sensitive
- Local native
- Non-invasive or negligible
- Up to 1652.17m Recorded at altitude
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In flower
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