Belongs within: Myrtaceae.
The Leptospermeae are a clade of trees and shrubs producing fruits as a woody capsule, sometimes with delayed opening. In members of the genus Kunzea, the flowers have stamens considerably longer than the petals whereas the stamens of Agonis and Leptospermum are shorter than or little longer than the petals. Asteromyrtus species have the stamens united into fascicles.
Characters (from Wilson et al. 2005): Shrubs or trees; leaves mostly spiral. Inflorescences of solitary flowers or triads sometimes aggregated into head-like clusters of flowers, very rarely into bottlebrush-like structures; flowers usually with free stamens, anthers versatile, dehiscing by longitudinal slits. Ovary half-inferior; placentas axile; ovules anatropous or hemitropous. Fruit a woody capsule, sometimes with delayed dehiscence; seeds linear or ellipsoid to obovoid, occasionally winged.
<==Leptospermeae [Leptospermineae] | i. s.: Asteromyrtus symphyocarpaWO05, WF01 | AngasomyrtusWO05 | HomalospermumWO05 | NeofabriciaWO05 | Pericalymma ellipticumWO05, RL05 |--KunzeaWO05 | |--K. ambiguaSN08 | |--K. baxteriWO05 | |--K. capitataWO05 | |--K. ericifoliaSS05 | |--K. ericoidesL03 | | |--K. e. var. ericoidesL97 | | `--K. e. var. linearisL97 | |--K. micranthaGK00 | |--K. micromeraOS04 | |--K. muelleriKC83 | |--K. preissianaOS04 | |--K. recurvaGK00 | `--K. sulphureaGK00 `--+--AgonisWO05 | |--A. flexuosaWO05 | |--A. hypericifoliaGK00 | |--A. juniperinaGK00 | |--A. marginataW89 | |--A. parvicepsGK00 | `--A. theaeformisW89 `--Leptospermum Forster & Forster 1776WO05, A61 |--L. arachnoideumC08 |--L. attenuatumM65 |--L. brachyandrumM65 |--L. chapmaniiA27 |--L. continentaleYHT05 |--L. coriaceumG76 |--L. ellipticumL88 |--L. ericoides Rich. 1832A61 | |--L. e. var. ericoidesA61 | |--L. e. var. lineare Kirk 1889 [incl. L. ericoides var. lineatum Kirk 1899, L. lineatum Ckn. 1911]A61 | `--L. e. var. microflorum Simpson 1945A61 |--L. erubescensOS04 |--L. fastigiatumG04 |--L. flavescensM65 |--L. fraseriA27 |--L. grandiflorumSN08 [=L. flavescens var. grandiflorumB96] |--L. javanicumR44 |--L. juniperinumB14 |--L. laevigatumSN08 |--L. lanigerumSN08 |--L. luehmanniiM65 |--L. microcarpumM65 |--L. myrsinoidesYHT05 |--L. nichollsiiA27 |--L. nitensG04 |--L. nitidumSN08 |--L. parvifoliumB96 |--L. phylicoidesC96 |--L. recurvumP88 |--L. riparium Morris in Morris & Curtis 1974MC74 |--L. scoparium Forster & Forster 1776 (see below for synonymy)A61 | |--L. s. var. scopariumA61 | |--L. s. var. incanum Ckn. 1917A61 | `--L. s. var. rotundifoliumB91 |--L. sinclairii Kirk 1899A61 |--L. spectabileWO05 |--L. spinescensG04 |--L. stellatumC08 `--L. trinerviumWO05
Leptospermum scoparium Forster & Forster 1776 [incl. L. scoparium var. linifolium Hooker 1852, L. scoparium var. myrtifolium Hooker 1852, L. scoparium var. parvum Kirk 1899, L. scoparium var. prostratum Hooker 1852]A61
*Type species of generic name indicated
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