Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Melaleuca styphelioides
Common name
Prickly-leaved tea-tree
Family
Myrtaceae
Where found
Forest, along streams, and in other moist sites. Coast, ranges, and the eastern edge of the tablelands, mainly north from Jervis Bay
Notes
Shrub or tree to 20 m tall. Leaves with sharp tips. Bark papery or hard, fissured. Branchlets hairy. Leaves aromatic when rubbed, alternating up the stems, 0.4-2.5 cm long, 2–7 mm wide, often twisted, with 15–30 longitudinal veins, surfaces hairless. Flower heads white, few- to many-flowered, 10-20 mm long, to about 25 mm wide. Individual flowers with 5 petals, each 1-2 mm long. Stamens 7-11 mm long. Flowers Spring-Summer.
PlantNET description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Melaleuca~styphelioides (accessed 24 January, 2021)
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