Gaudium brevipes, commonly known as the slender tea-tree,[2] is a species of shrub or small tree that is endemic to eastern Australia.

Flowering occurs from October to December and the fruit is a silky-hairy, hemispherical capsule 3–4 mm (0.12–0.16 in) in diameter with the sepals attached and that is shed when mature.

[2][3][4] This species was first formally described in 1855 by Ferdinand von Mueller who gave it the name Leptospermum brevipes in his book Definitions of rare or hitherto undescribed Australian plants.

[5][6] In 2023, Peter Gordon Wilson transferred the species to the genus Gaudium as G. brevipes in the journal Taxon.

It occurs from the Granite Belt in south-eastern Queensland, mostly along the tablelands of New South Wales and the Australian Capital Territory to eastern Victoria.