Melaleuca flavovirens

Green bottlebrush
Melaleuca flavovirens
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Rosids
Order: Myrtales
Family: Myrtaceae
Genus: Melaleuca
Species:
M. flavovirens
Binomial name
Melaleuca flavovirens
Synonyms[1]
  • Callistemon rugulosus var. flavovirens Cheel
  • Callistemon flavovirens (Cheel) Cheel

Melaleuca flavovirens, commonly known as green bottlebrush is a plant in the myrtle family, Myrtaceae and is endemic to a small area near the New South Wales–Queensland border in Australia. (Some Australian state herbaria continue to use the name Callistemon flavovirens.)[2] It is a stiff shrub, distinguished by its silvery new growth and spikes of greenish flowers with yellow tips.

  1. ^ a b "Melaleuca flavovirens". Plants of the World Online. Retrieved 29 August 2021.
  2. ^ Udovicic, Frank; Spencer, Roger (2012). "New combinations in Callistemon (Myrtaceae)" (PDF). Muelleria. 30 (1): 23–25. doi:10.5962/p.292240. S2CID 251007557. Retrieved 11 June 2015.