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Melaleuca

L. (1767)

This name is accepted

Kingdom: Viridiplantae Phylum: Magnoliophyta Class/Clade: Eudicot-Rosids Order: Myrtales Family: Myrtaceae Genus: Melaleuca

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Description

Key Characters:

Growth Form: Shrubs or small trees.

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Leaves: Leaves simple. Alternate or opposite. Blades flat or concave. Blades coriaceous. Margins entire. Often with 3 or more longitudinal veins. Petiolate or sessile. Stipules vestigial or absent.

Flowers: Flowers in heads or cylindrical spikes, the axis usually elongating as a leafy branch after flowering. Flowers bisexual (perfect), actinomorphic. Hypanthium well–developed above ovary. Calyx of 5 sepals, deciduous. Corolla of 5 petals, orbicular, much longer than sepals. Stamens numerous, long–exserted, connate basally into 5 bundles opposite the petals, the connate part of filaments flattened; anthers dithecal. Ovary inferior, (1)2–12(–16)-carpellate, depressed around style, 3-celled; ovules numerous, placentation axile.

Fruit: Fruit woody by the accrescent hypanthium; which is adnate to and encloses the 3–valved; loculicidal capsules. Seeds linear to cuneate.

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Historical Distribution

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Uses and Culture

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Bibliography

Name Published In: Mant. Pl. 1: 14 (1767)

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