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Melaleuca bracteata, commonly known as the black tea-tree, river tea-tree or mock olive [2] is a plant in the myrtle family, Myrtaceae and is endemic to northern Australia. It usually occurs as a large shrub but under ideal conditions can grow into a tree up to 10 m (30 ft) tall.
Melaleuca bisulcata F.Muell. Melaleuca blaeriifolia Turcz. Melaleuca boeophylla Craven; Melaleuca borealis Craven; Melaleuca brachyandra Craven (=Callistemon brachyandrus) - prickly bottlebrush; Melaleuca bracteata F.Muell. - black teatree, river teatree, mock olive; Melaleuca bracteosa Turcz. Melaleuca brevifolia Turcz. - mallee honey-myrtle
This is a list of Australian plant species authored by Joseph Maiden, including naturalised species: . Acacia abrupta Maiden & Blakely; Acacia acellerata Maiden & Blakely; Acacia adsurgens Maiden & Blakely
Melaleuca (/ ˌ m ɛ l ə ˈ lj uː k ə /) is a genus of nearly 300 species of plants in the myrtle family, Myrtaceae, commonly known as paperbarks, honey-myrtles, bottlebrushes or tea-trees (although the last name is also applied to species of Leptospermum).
Melaleuca rugulosa is a shrub growing to 5 m (20 ft) high with an open, straggling habit and peeling grey bark. Its leaves are arranged alternately and are 21–86 mm (0.8–3 in) long, 2.5–8.5 mm (0.1–0.3 in) wide, flat, thick, rigid, narrow elliptic to egg-shaped with the narrower end near the base and have a sharp point.
Melaleuca acerosa var. bracteata Benth. Melaleuca bisulcata is a plant in the myrtle family , Myrtaceae and is endemic to a relatively small area on the west coast of Western Australia . It is difficult to distinguish this species from Melaleuca psammophila except on differences in the shape of the calyx lobes.
Melaleuca bracteosa is sometimes an erect shrub to a height of 1.5 metres (5 ft) but is more usually a low, dense spreading shrub to about 0.5 m (2 ft). Its leaves are narrow oval in shape, 2.7–9 mm (0.1–0.4 in) long and 0.9–1.5 mm (0.04–0.06 in), glabrous, bright green and fleshy with a blunt tip.
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