Plants of South Eastern New South Wales

Melaleuca biconvexa

Flowering stems. Photographer Don Wood, Basin View near Jervis Bay

Flowering branches. Australian Plant Image Index, photographer Denise Grieg, Fairhill Nursery, Qld

Common name

Creek paperbark, Biconvex paperbark

Family

Myrtaceae

Where found

along streams and other damp places. Mainly Jervis Bay and inland, and north from Woy Woy.

Notes

Shrub or tree to 20 m tall. Bark papery. Leaves aromatic when rubbed, opposite or nearly opposite each other, 0.7-1.8 cm long, 2-4 mm wide, hairless or occasionally bristly, with 3 longitudinal veins, the midvein deeply inset above, upper side convex on each side of the midvein, tips pointed. Flower heads about 10 mm long and much wider, white to pale yellow. Individual flowers with 5 petals each 5-6 mm long. Stamens much longer. Flowers Spring to Summer.

Vulnerable Australia. Vulnerable NSW. 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.

NSW Threatened Species profile:  http://www.environment.nsw.gov.au/threatenedSpeciesApp/profile.aspx?id=10514 (accessed 7 January, 2021)

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