| Dicotyledon | Literature for Melaleuca quinquenervia
Wagner et al., 1990, 1999. |
| Myrtaceae -- The Myrtle Family | Bibliography |
| Melaleuca quinquenervia | |
Common name(s): bottlebrush, honey myrtle, paperbark |
| General Information | ||
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| Distribution | Native to eastern Australia, New Guinea, and New Caledonia.In the Hawaiian Islands, naturalized on Kaua`i, O`ahu, Moloka`i, Lana`i, Maui, Hawai`i. | |
| Habit |
Trees to 20-25 m tall, bark whitish or pale brown, spongy, exfoliating. |
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| Leaves |
Leaves alternate, coriaceous, lanceolate to oblanceolate, 5-9 cm long, 0.8-1.5 cm wide, 3-nerved or 5-nerved, glabrous, glandular punctate, apex acute, base cuneate, petioles ca. 3-8 mm long, twisted. |
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| Flowers |
Flowers in cylindrical spikes ca. 3-10 cm long, the axis silky pubescent; sepals broadly deltate-ovate, ca. 1.2-1.5 mm long; petals cream, ca. 2.5-3 mm long; stamens ca. 10-15 mm long; filaments connate at base. |
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| Fruit |
Fruit woody, short-cylindrical, ca. 3-4 mm long, 4-5 mm in diameter. |
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| Chromosomes |
2n = 22 |
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