Green bottlebrush | |
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Melaleuca flavovirens | |
Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Plantae |
Clade: | Tracheophytes |
Clade: | Angiosperms |
Clade: | Eudicots |
Clade: | Rosids |
Order: | Myrtales |
Family: | Myrtaceae |
Genus: | Melaleuca |
Species: | M. flavovirens
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Binomial name | |
Melaleuca flavovirens | |
Synonyms[1] | |
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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.