Plants of South Eastern New South Wales

Melaleuca armillaris subsp. armillaris

Flower spike, nuts, and leaves. Australian Plant Image Index, photographer Murray Fagg, Austrlian National Botanic Gardens, Canberra, ACT

Forest. Australian Plant Image Index, photographer Murray Fagg, Cuttagee Lake, south of Bermagui

Line drawings. y. flowering stem; z. stamen bundle; aa. leaf; bb. seed cases on stem. SM Clarke, National Herbarium of Victoria, © 2021 Royal Botanic Gardens Board.

Common name

Bracelet honey-myrtle, Cream paperbark, Giant honey-myrtle

Family

Myrtaceae

Where found

Dry forest, heath, shrubland, wet paddocks, headlands, and rocky ridges. Coast, ranges, and tablelands. Naturalised in the ACT.

Notes

Shrub to about 6 m tall. Bark rough, hard or corky, often with shallow fissures. Leaves aromatic when rubbed, alternating up the stems, 1.2-2.5 cm long, about 1 mm wide, linear, tips curved down and pointed, surfaces hairless. Flower spikes 30-70 mm long, 20–28 mm wide, cylindrical, many-flowered, white, cream, or rarely pink to pinkish mauve. Individual flowers with 5 petals each 2-3 mm long. Stamens much longer. Flowers Summer.

Endangered community of Melaleuca armillaris Tall Shrubland in the Sydney Basin Bioregion.

Provisions of the Biodiversity Conservation Act 2016 No 63 relating to the protection of protected plants generally also apply to plants that are a threatened species or a part of a threatened ecological community.

Rare Vic.

Threatened Community profile:  https://www.environment.nsw.gov.au/threatenedspeciesapp/profile.aspx?id=10513   (accessed 7 January, 2021)

PlantNET description:  http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Melaleuca~armillaris (accessed 7 January, 2021)