Plants of South Eastern New South Wales

Melaleuca uncinata

Flowering stem and stem with seed cases. Australian Plant Image Index, photographer Murray Fagg, Australian National Botanic Gardens, Canberra, ACT

Shrub. Photographer Murray Fagg, unknown place

Line drawings. m. flowering branches; n. stamen bundles; o. leaf; p.cluster of nuts. SM Clarke, National Herbarium of Victoria, © 2021 Royal Botanic Gardens Board

Common name

Broombush, Broom Honey-myrtle

Family

Myrtaceae

Where found

Dry forest, mallee, woodland, and shrubland. Mainly Western Slopes. Occasionally elsewhere.

Notes

Shrub to 3 m high. Bark papery on older stems. Leaves aromatic when rubbed, alternating up the stems, about 1.5–5 cm long, about 1 mm wide, tips pointed with a fine curved tip, surfacees becoming hairless. Flowers white to yellow, in dense, globular or oblong heads, 10-20 mm long. Individual flowers with 5 petals each about 1 mm long, usually in 3s. Stamens about 4-6 mm long. Flowers mostly spring. 

PlantNET description:  http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Melaleuca~uncinata (accessed 25 January, 2021)