NameThatPlant.net: Melaleuca quinquenervia

Spermatophytes (seed plants): Angiosperms (flowering plants): Eudicots: Core Eudicots: Rosids: Malvids: Myrtales

WEAKLEY'S FLORA (5/21/15):
Melaleuca quinquenervia FAMILY Myrtaceae NEW! Click to go to FSUS key

Dig deeper at SERNEC, a consortium of southeastern herbaria.

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SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Melaleuca quinquenervia FAMILY Myrtaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH The genera of Myrtaceae in the southeastern US (Wilson, 1960)
Melaleuca leucodendron

SYNONYMOUS WITH (MISAPPLIED) Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Melaleuca leucadendra

COMMON NAME:
Paperbark Tree , Meleleuca, Punktree

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image of Melaleuca quinquenervia, Paperbark Tree , Meleleuca, Punktree

W.D. Brush / USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / US Forest Service pnd_mele_002_lvp

WEAKLEY'S FLORA (5/21/15):
Melaleuca quinquenervia FAMILY Myrtaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Melaleuca quinquenervia FAMILY Myrtaceae

SYNONYMOUS WITH The genera of Myrtaceae in the southeastern US (Wilson, 1960)
Melaleuca leucodendron

SYNONYMOUS WITH (MISAPPLIED) Manual of the Southeastern Flora (Small, 1933, 1938)
Melaleuca leucadendra

4148

Shrub; Tree
Perennial
Monoecious

Non-native: Australia

Documented growing wild in - - -

Habitat: Wetlands, disturbed areas, per Weakley's Flora

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INVASIVE

This plant is causing problems in natural areas outside its native range, according to authorities such as:

LEAVES:
Evergreen
Simple
Alternate
Leaves have short petioles.
Margins entire

FLOWER:
Winter/Spring/Summer/Fall
White
Unisexual
Numerous stamens

Flowers in showy 1-3" bottlebrush-like spikes at branch tips

FRUIT:
Winter/Spring/Summer/Fall
Capsule

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