1 "Fruit a 1-seeded succulent berry; tree of sheltered gullies in eastern Victoria" "Syzygium {Syzygium smithii}" 1 "Fruit a dry loculicidal capsule or indehiscent nut (or in prostrate, western Kunzea pomifera, a several-seeded, fleshy capsule)" 2 2 "Stamens fused in 5 bundles opposite the petals" 3 2 "Stamens not fused in bundles, usually completely free, rarely fused in irregular bundles opposite sepals" 4 3 "Flowers sessile, aggregated in heads or spikes" Melaleuca 3 "Flowers pedicellate, aggregated in cymes; East Gippsland only" "Tristaniopsis {Tristaniopsis laurina}" 4 "Flower buds not covered by an operculum" 5 4 "Flower buds covered by a deciduous operculum composed of fused perianth segments" 23 5 "Leaves opposite" 6 5 "Leaves alternate" 17 6 "Shrubs to 5 m high; leaves mostly less than 3 cm long and 7 mm wide" 7 6 "Trees to 30 m high; leaves mostly more than 4 cm long and 2 cm wide" 16 7 "Ovary 2- or 3-celled; fruit a capsule, dehiscing by terminal slits (except in fleshy-fruited Kunzea pomifera); seeds numerous" 8 7 "Ovary 1-celled; fruit small, indehiscent; seed usually solitary" 14 8 "Stamens mostly longer than petals" Kunzea 8 "Stamens all shorter than petals" 9 9 "Leaves normally more than 2 mm wide; flowers 2 or more in axillary umbels; ovary 3-celled" Sannantha 9 "Leaves normally less than 2 mm wide; flowers solitary in leaf axils (rarely with 2 or 3 flowers in axils); ovary 2- or 3-celled" 10 10 "At least some anthers united in bundles opposite sepals; escaped from cultivation" Astartea 10 "Anthers not united into bundles" 11 11 "Leaves mostly 3–8 mm long, more or less terete, tapered to a recurved apical point; ovary 3-celled; north-western Victoria" "Hysterobaeckea {Hysterobaeckea behrii}" 11 "Leaves flat or thick, not tapered to a recurved apical point, if ever terete then apical point straight and ovary 2-celled" 12 12 "Flowers sessile" Baeckea 12 "Flowers pedicellate" 13 13 "Petals pinkish; bracteoles subopposite or alternate, persistent; ovary 3-celled; seeds reniform, arillate" "Euryomyrtus {Euryomyrtus ramosissima}" 13 "Petals white or pink; bracteoles opposite, deciduous or absent; ovary 2- or 3-celled; seeds angular, or if reniform then exarillate" Baeckea 14 "Stamens 10, alternating with 10 minute staminodes; style long and exserted; far east and far west only" Darwinia 14 "Stamens 5 or 10 (rarely 12), opposite petals and/or sepals, staminodes absent; style shortly exserted" 15 15 "Leaves less than 5 mm long, more or less trigonous; stamens 5 and opposite petals, or 10 (rarely 12) and opposite petals and sepals; anthers opening by longitudinal slits, connective gland small, subglobose" "Micromyrtus {Micromyrtus ciliata}" 15 "Leaves mostly more than 5 mm long, flat or slightly concave above; stamens usually 5 and opposite sepals; anthers opening by pores, connective gland prominent, clavate or urceolate; Grampians and Gippsland only" Thryptomene 16 "Leaves with raised oil glands, eventually glabrous; flowers white or cream; fruit woody, strongly ribbed" Angophora 16 "Leaves white-tomentose on lower surface; flowers reddish or crimson; fruit white-tomentose, not woody or strongly ribbed" "Metrosideros {Metrosideros excelsa}" 17 "Sepals persistent, often tipped by a long awn; ovary 1-celled" Calytrix 17 "Sepals persistent or non-persistent, never awn-tipped; ovary 2–5-celled" 18 18 "Flowers aggregated in spike-like conflorescences (bottlebrush); sepals not persistent; petals inconspicuous; capsules quite sessile, encircling stems and persisting for many years" Callistemon 18 "Flowers solitary in leaf axils or in heads (rarely in a short spike); sepals often persistent; petals usually conspicuous; capsules, if persisting, not sheathing stems, usually pedicellate" 19 19 "Most stamens considerably longer than the petals" Kunzea 19 "Stamens shorter, or scarcely longer, than petals" 20 20 "Flowers solitary or in loose clusters; native plants" 21 20 "Flowers in dense heads in leaf axils or terminal on short axillary shoots; cultivated plants" 22 21 "Fruits (valves and hypanthium) woody, usually persistent; seeds linear, surface striate; sepals deciduous or persistent in fruit" Leptospermum 21 "Fruits thin-walled and deciduous or semi-persistent and the hypanthium somewhat succulent; seeds ovate, surface reticulate; sepals persistent in fruit" Gaudium 22 "Leaves less than 4 cm long; stamens 10 or fewer, 1 opposite each sepal and petal; petals circular, distinctly clawed" Taxandria 22 "Leaves mostly more than 4.5 cm long; stamens more than 11, usually in groups of 3 or more and only opposite sepals; petals obovate not or hardly clawed" "Agonis {Agonis flexuosa}" 23 "Inflorescences axillary, of single flowers, umbels or small panicles, if ever terminal then leaf venation not as below; leaves usually with a distinct eucalyptus odour" Eucalyptus 23 "Inflorescences of terminal panicles; adult leaves with numerous, prominent, pinnate side veins at wide angle to midrib, not or only faintly smelling of eucalyptus (sometimes lemon-scented)" Corymbia