Gaudium coriaceum

Green tea-tree
Gaudium coriaceum flowers and leaves
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Rosids
Order: Myrtales
Family: Myrtaceae
Genus: Gaudium
Species:
G. coriaceum
Binomial name
Gaudium coriaceum
(F.Muell.) Peter G.Wilson
Occurrence data from AVH
Synonyms
  • Fabricia coriacea F.Muell.
  • Leptospermum coriaceum (F.Muell.) Cheel
  • Leptospermum laevigatum var. minus Benth.

Gaudium coriaceum, commonly known as green tea-tree or mallee teatree, is a shrub species that is endemic to south-eastern and south-central Australia. It has smooth bark on the younger stems, elliptic to narrow egg-shaped leaves, white flowers and woody fruit. The usual habitat is mallee on sand dunes.