Kunzea parvifolia

A wiry shrub to a height of 1.5 metres, with a spread to 1 metre with its young branches covered with soft hairs. 

It has a large geographic range in NSW, growing from the coastal inland to the edge of the western slopes, as far south as the Victorian border on the tablelands and western slopes and as far north as the Queensland border north of Tenterfield. There are records just into Queensland, north-west of Stanthorpe. It grows commonly in Victoria, in the general north-eastern and south-eastern quarters, and then disjunctly in the central west.

It is found in dry sclerophyll woodland and forest. It has a habit of forming extensive copses in regenerating areas on paddocks and edges of woodland and native grasslands. Often found in slightly wetter areas in the landscape.

Kunzea spp. have simple and alternate or opposite to clustered leaves, often aromatic. In this species, the leaves are alternate and spiral around the stem, linear to narrow lanceolate and more or less pressed against the stem, to 4 mm long and about 1 mm wide, with a prominent midvein. 

Kunzea spp. have conspicuously staminate flowers, like many of their myrtle-relatives, with 5 sepals and petals, in a range of colours, white, red, purple, pink or yellow (depending on species). Each flower has numerous stamens surrounding one carpel. Flowers are usually produced in high numbers in terminal or sub-terminal clusters or heads; rarely as solitary flowers or in clusters of 2s or 3s. In this species, the flowers are arranged in head-like clusters of mostly three to eight on the ends of the branches, pink to mauve, rarely white, about 8 mm in diameter if stamens are measured. Occurring mostly in October and November.

The fruit of Kunzea is a capsule. In this species, it is about 3 mm long and 1.5 mm wide, which will release many small seeds (up to 50).