 The fruit is an urn-shaped capsule with the sepal lobes attached.This species was first formally described in 1983 by Malcolm Trudgen and Greg Keighery who gave it the name "Angasomyrtus salina" and published the description in the journal "Nuytsia".Following phylogenetic analyses of DNA sequences, Peter de Lange and Hellmut Toelken changed the name to "Kunzea salina".