Plants of South Eastern New South Wales

Melaleuca parvistaminea

Flowering branches. Photographer Don Wood, Kings Highway near Braidwood

Flowering branches. Australian Plant Image Index, photographer D Verdon, Australian National Botanic Gardens, Canberra, ACT

Common name

Small-flowered honey-myrtle

Family

Myrtaceae

Where found

Open forest, woodland, roadsides, along streams, lakesides, and damp sites. Mainly the tablelands to the east of the ACT. Occasional elsewhere. Introduced to the ACT.

Notes

Shrub or tree to 5 m tall. Bark hard, rough, often scaly. Leaves aromatic when rubbed, scattered or in whorls of 3, 0.4-1.1 cm long, about 1 mm wide, linear, oil glands raised, tips pointed to blunt, surfacees hairless. Flower spikes 10-25 mm long, 5–9 mm wide, many-flowered, white to pale yellow, petals often tinged with pink. Individual flowers with 5 petals each to 1.5 mm long. Stamens 3–4 mm long. Flowers spring–summer.

PlantNET description:  http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Melaleuca~parvistaminea  (accessed 24 January, 2021)