Common name: black tea-tree
Melaleuca bracteata F.Muell. APNI* Description: Shrub or tree to 15 m high with hard, fissured bark.
Leaves alternate, narrow-ovate to ovate, 10–28 mm long, 1.5–3 mm wide, 5–11-veined, apex acute to acuminate, glabrous or occasionally pubescent; sessile.
Inflorescences few- to many-flowered spikes 1.5–3.5 cm long; rachis pubescent. Flowers solitary or in threes within each bract, white. Petals ± circular, 1.5–2 mm long. Stamens 16–25 per bundle; claw 3–4 mm long.
Fruit subglobose, 2–3 mm diam., orifice c. 2 mm diam.; sepals persistent.
Flowering: spring.
Distribution and occurrence: Widespread, along watercourses or on heavier inland soils in depressions; north from the Macleay R.
NSW subdivisions: NC, NT, NWS, NWP
Other Australian states: Qld W.A. S.A. N.T.
Text by Peter. G. Wilson
Taxon concept: Flora of NSW 2 (1991)
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