Waterhousea B.Hyland

4 endemic species in Aust.; Qld, NSW

Waterhousea floribunda (F.Muell.) B.Hyland

Tree with dark grey, fissured bark. Leaves opposite, lanceolate to elliptic, 5–16 cm long, 15–50 mm wide, with undulate margins; lower surface paler; oil glands numerous, small. Flowers in terminal panicles. Petals cohering, shed as a cap as the flower opens. Fruit with the short free part of the floral tube at top, fleshy, reddish green. Hunter River Valley. RF. Fl. spring. Weeping Lilly Pilly