Melaleuca ctenoides

Melaleuca ctenoides
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Rosids
Order: Myrtales
Family: Myrtaceae
Genus: Melaleuca
Species:
M. ctenoides
Binomial name
Melaleuca ctenoides

Melaleuca ctenoides is a shrub in the myrtle family, Myrtaceae and is endemic to the south-west of Western Australia. It was first described in 1990 in a review of the genus Melaleuca when the species M. laxiflora at that time was found to comprise ten species. Two of those species were new - M. camptoclada and M. ctenoides.[2] It similar to Melaleuca laxiflora but distinguished from it by its comb-like leaves and attractive mauve or violet flowers in spring.

Fruit
Habit near Wongan Hills
  1. ^ "Melaleuca ctenoides". Plants of the World Online. Retrieved 27 August 2021.
  2. ^ Cowley, KJ; Quinn, FC; Barlow, BA; Craven, LA (1990). "Contributions to a revision of (Myrtaceae): 7–10". Australian Systematic Botany. 3 (2): 165. doi:10.1071/SB9900165. Retrieved 21 March 2015.