Melaleuca L.
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Melaleuca L., Syst. Nat., ed. 12. 2, 507, 509 (1767)
Melaleuca L.
Nomenclature
L.
L.
1767
507, 509
conserved
ICN
Melaleuca L.
genus
Melaleuca
Classification
Subordinates
- Melaleuca acuminata
- Melaleuca alternifolia
- Melaleuca armillaris
- Melaleuca aspalathoides
- Melaleuca barlowii
- Melaleuca bracteata
- Melaleuca brophyi
- Melaleuca calyptroides
- Melaleuca carrii
- Melaleuca citrina
- Melaleuca concinna
- Melaleuca croxfordiae
- Melaleuca diffusa
- Melaleuca diosmifolia
- Melaleuca ericifolia
- Melaleuca florida
- Melaleuca fulgens
- Melaleuca huegelii
- Melaleuca hypericifolia
- Melaleuca laetifica
- Melaleuca laurina
- Melaleuca leucadendra
- Melaleuca leuropoma
- Melaleuca linariifolia
- Melaleuca linearifolia
- Melaleuca linearis
- Melaleuca lucida
- Melaleuca microphylla
- Melaleuca nesophila
- Melaleuca pallida
- Melaleuca paludicola
- Melaleuca perforata
- Melaleuca phoenicea
- Melaleuca plumea
- Melaleuca polycephala
- Melaleuca procera
- Melaleuca quadrifida
- Melaleuca quinquenervia
- Melaleuca radula
- Melaleuca ryeae
- Melaleuca salicina
- Melaleuca saligna
- Melaleuca scoparia
- Melaleuca sparsa
- Melaleuca squarrosa
- Melaleuca stramentosa
- Melaleuca styphelioides
- Melaleuca suaveolens
- Melaleuca teretifolia
- Melaleuca thymifolia
- Melaleuca villosa
- Melaleuca villosisepala
- Melaleuca viminalis
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Descriptions
Shrubs or small trees. Lvs alternate, dotted with glands. Infl. a dense regular elongated spike of contiguous fls, the axis growing through it after flowering. Hypanthium continued above ovary, ovoid or campanulate; calyx of 5 distinct sepals, membranous, deciduous. Petals 5, ± orbicular, free, > sepals, deciduous. Stamens numerous, much > petals, usually free, very rarely united at base, commonly in two whorls, strongly incurved in bud; anthers versatile. Ovary 3-4-celled, each with many ovules; style long and coloured. Capsule woody, loculicidal, included in receptacle tube, often persistent for several years. Seeds numerous.
Taxonomic concepts
Callistemon R.Br.
Melaleuca L.
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scientific name
Names_Plants
1 January 2000
4 March 2019