Melaleuca thyoides

Salt lake honey-myrtle
Melaleuca thyoides
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Rosids
Order: Myrtales
Family: Myrtaceae
Genus: Melaleuca
Species:
M. thyoides
Binomial name
Melaleuca thyoides
Synonyms[1]
  • Melaleuca cupressina F.Muell.
  • Myrtoleucodendron thyoides (Turcz.) Kuntze

Melaleuca thyoides, commonly known as salt lake honey-myrtle is a plant in the myrtle family, Myrtaceae and is endemic to the south-west of Western Australia. It is an erect shrub with grey, papery or fibrous bark and very small, overlapping leaves on thin branchlets. It is a salt tolerant species often found on the edges of salt lakes.

  1. ^ a b "Melaleuca thyoides". Plants of the World Online. Retrieved 10 September 2021.