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Melaleuca nodosa (Sol. ex Gaertn.) Sm.
Family Myrtaceae
Common name: Prickly-leaved Paperbark

Melaleuca nodosa (Sol. ex Gaertn.) Sm. APNI*

Description: Shrub usually 1–4 m high with a corky to papery bark.

Leaves alternate, rigid, very variable, terete, linear or oblong, mostly 10–40 mm long, 1–3 mm wide, apex straight, pungent, glabrous; petiole to 1 mm long.

Inflorescences dense, pseudopedunculate heads; rachis silky. Flowers solitary, paired or in threes within each bract, white to yellow. Petals ± circular, 1–1.5 mm long. Stamens 3–5 per bundle; claw 1–2 mm long.

Fruit angular ovoid, 2–3 mm diam., orifice 1–1.5 mm diam.; sepals not persistent in fruit; fruit usually persisting in globose clusters 6–10 mm diam.


Illustration
M. Flockton

Habit
Photo J. & P. Edwards

Flower
Photo J. & P. Edwards

Herbarium
Sheet

Flowering: spring–summer.

Distribution and occurrence: Widespread in a variety of habitats, especially in coastal heath and dry sclerophyll forest; north from Campbelltown.
NSW subdivisions: NC, CC, CWS
Other Australian states: Qld
AVH map***

Text by Peter. G. Wilson
Taxon concept: Flora of NSW 2 (1991)


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