Baeckea leptocaulis

Baeckea leptocaulis is a species of flowering plant in the family Myrtaceae and is endemic to Tasmania. It is a shrub with linear leaves and small white flowers with five or six stamens.

Description
Baeckea leptocaulis is a shrub that typically grows to a height of 0.3–1 m and has grey or brown branchlets. The leaves are linear, mostly 4.5–10 mm long and 0.8–1.2 mm wide on a petiole 0.8–1.4 mm long. The flowers are about 6 mm in diameter and are borne in leaf axils on a peduncle about 0.5 mm long, each flower on a pedicel 1.5–3.5 mm long. The sepals are oblong, about 0.8 mm long and the petals are white, more or less round and 1.6–2.2 mm long. There are five or six stamens, the ovary has two locules and the style is about 1.0 mm long. Flowering occurs between December and March and the fruit is a cylindrical to bell-shaped capsule 2.0–2.8 mm long and wide.

Taxonomy
Baeckea leptocaulis was first formally described in 1840 by Joseph Dalton Hooker in William Jackson Hooker's Icones Plantarum from specimens collected by Ronald Gunn at Rocky Cape. The specific epithet (leptocaulis) means "thin-stemmed".

Distribution and habitat
This baeckea grows in wet heathland and sedgeland in western and central Tasmania.