Leionema oldfieldii is a small shrub that is endemic to mountainous locations in Tasmania, Australia. It has dark green leaves, compact pale pink to white flowers from November to January.
Leionema oldfieldii is a small, compact shrub to high. The branchlets are more or less needle-shaped, with usually star to upright shaped soft hairs. The leaves are leathery, smooth, shiny, egg-shaped to oblong-elliptic, long, wide, flat with slightly rolled edges and finely scalloped toward the rounded apex. The inflorescence is a tight group of terminal, pale pink to white flowers on a fleshy, smooth pedicel about long with two small bracteoles near the base. The petals are elliptic, spreading, about long and smooth. The stamens are slightly longer than the petals. Flowering occurs from late spring to early summer.[1]
This species was first formally described in 1858 by Ferdinand von Mueller and gave it the name Eriostemon oldfieldii and the description was published in Fragmenta Phytographiae Australiae.[2] [3] In 1998 Paul G. Wilson changed the name to Leionema oldfieldii and the name change was published in the journal Nuytsia.[4] [5]
Leionema oldfieldii grows in mountainous areas of the south and west coasts of Tasmania.[1]