1 "Branchlets rigid, terete, smooth or wrinkled to slightly striate, pungent; rounded, divaricately-branched shrub of the mallee region, east to the Grampians and Bendigo" "Leptomeria aphylla" 1 "Branchlets flexible to more or less rigid, subterete to prominently angular, longitudinally ridged, not pungent; erect, occasionally broom-like shrubs of open- forests in far East Gippsland" 2 2 "Inflorescence 12–30-flowered, tepals reddish, less often yellowish-brown or greenish, drying dark; disc shallowly lobed" "Leptomeria acida" 2 "Inflorescence 6–15-flowered, tepals white (frequently flushed reddish-pink upon ageing), drying pale; disc markedly lobed" "Leptomeria drupacea"