Rawiri - a common tree and shrub fringing side of dune lake. Specimens with flaky bark bearing masses of linear, hairy leaves and white flowers. Leaves linear up to 12mm long. Inflorescences spiciform. Flower buds ovoid, double conic to pyriform, apex sharply erect; calyx lobes pinched at base inwards, touching prior to bud burst. Flowers white (or flushed pink) 1.9–5.7 mm diameter. Hypanthium 2.0–4.0 × 2.5–4.1 mm, copiously covered in silvery-white to silvery-grey hairs or glabrous; barrel-shaped, cupular or narrowly campanulate, rim bearing 5 persistent sharply erect calyx lobes. Fruits 1.6–2.9 × 2.3–4.1 mm, initially silvery-white or silvery-grey due to dense hair covering, maturing grey-brown to grey-black, barrel-shaped to narrowly obconic, rarely campanulate to cupular, calyx valves prominently erect. For more information see: de Lange, P.J. 2014: A revision of the New Zealand Kunzea ericoides (Myrtaceae) complex. Phytokeys 40: 185p doi: 10.3897/phytokeys.40.7973.