Kunzea opposita

Kunzea opposita is a spindly shrub which grows to a height of with its young stems covered with fine hairs. The leaves are mostly arranged in opposite pairs along the branches and are narrow egg-shaped, long and less than wide on a very short petiole. The leaves are glabrous. The flowers are arranged in rounded groups of five to nine on the ends of the branches. There are lance-shaped to egg-shaped bracts which are long and wide, and smaller paired bracteoles at the base the flowers. The floral cup is long and hairy. The sepals are triangular to egg-shaped, long and sometimes hairy. The petals are pink, oblong to broadly egg-shaped, about long and there are 40 to 50 stamens in several rows. The stamens are long. Flowering occurs in August to November and is followed by fruit which an urn-shaped capsule about long and wide with the sepal lobes attached. ==Taxonomy and naming==

Kunzea opposita was first formally described in 1867 by Ferdinand von Mueller and the description was published in Fragmenta phytographiae Australiae. The specific epithet (opposita) is a Latin word meaning "on the other side" or "contrary". ==Distribution and habitat==

This kunzea grows in woodland, forest or exposed cliffs north of the Mount Kaputar National Park in New South Wales and in south-east Queensland. ==References==