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Melaleuca lophantha (Vent.) ined.

Myrtaceae · New South Wales, Queensland

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About the genus · Melaleuca

Melaleuca is a genus of nearly 300 species of plants in the myrtle family, Myrtaceae, commonly known as paperbarks, honey-myrtles, bottlebrushes or tea-trees. They range in size from small shrubs that rarely grow to more than 1 m high, to trees up to 35 m (115 ft). Their flowers generally occur in groups, forming a "head" or "spike" resembling a brush used for cleaning bottles, containing up to 80 individual flowers.

Quoted from Wikipedia, "Melaleuca", CC BY-SA 4.0.

Cultivation

Nothing derived: no habitat climate for this species.

Climate across the habitat

No habitat climate can be derived: Only 2 distinct land cells of the climate grid hold an in-range record placed to within 10 km; three are needed for an envelope.

Natural habitat

Native range as published by WCVP.
Openly licensed records inside the range, framed on where they fall.

This species has no GBIF key of its own. Its records are GBIF's under the keys of the names Kew's World Checklist holds as this plant: 3173487 (Callistemon lophanthus (Vent.) Sweet, 0 records), 3173489 (Callistemon salignus f. hebestachys (Benth.) Voss, 0 records), 3173490 (Callistemon lanceolatus var. lophanthus (Vent.) Heynh., 0 records), 3173492 (Callistemon salignus var. hebestachyus Benth., 0 records), 3173493 (Metrosideros lophantha Vent., 0 records), 11054444 (Melaleuca lophantha (Vent.), 3 records). No name was matched to GBIF; the keys are read from Kew's synonymy. How.

NativeNew South Wales, Queensland · introduced: Kenya, Uganda · regions are the level-3 units of the World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions, as Kew's World Checklist records ranges, some under historical names such as Yugoslavia or Czechoslovakia (how).
Kew's description“shrub” · “subtropical” · quoted from WCVP, RBG Kew (CC BY 4.0); not derived here
Evidence usedThe map marker rests on all 2 georeferenced records inside the native range, all openly licensed and shown on the map. Under a dozen records behind the map. No climate across the range is derived for this species.
Other GBIF keysRecords also from GBIF's key 3173487 (Callistemon lophanthus (Vent.) Sweet): Kew's file holds it as Callistemon lophanthus (Vent.) Sweet (synonym under Melaleuca lophantha (Vent.) ined.); 0 records, from GBIF's search API on the day of the build.Records also from GBIF's key 3173489 (Callistemon salignus f. hebestachys (Benth.) Voss): Kew's file holds it as Callistemon salignus f. hebestachys (Benth.) Voss (synonym under Melaleuca lophantha (Vent.) ined.); 0 records, from GBIF's search API on the day of the build.Records also from GBIF's key 3173490 (Callistemon lanceolatus var. lophanthus (Vent.) Heynh.): Kew's file holds it as Callistemon lanceolatus var. lophanthus (Vent.) Heynh. (synonym under Melaleuca lophantha (Vent.) ined.); 0 records, from GBIF's search API on the day of the build.Records also from GBIF's key 3173492 (Callistemon salignus var. hebestachyus Benth.): Kew's file holds it as Callistemon salignus var. hebestachyus Benth. (synonym under Melaleuca lophantha (Vent.) ined.); 0 records, from GBIF's search API on the day of the build.Records also from GBIF's key 3173493 (Metrosideros lophantha Vent.): Kew's file holds it as Metrosideros lophantha Vent. (synonym under Melaleuca lophantha (Vent.) ined.); 0 records, from GBIF's search API on the day of the build.Records also from GBIF's key 11054444 (Melaleuca lophantha (Vent.)): Kew's file holds it as Melaleuca lophantha (Vent.) ined. (accepted); 3 records, from GBIF's download.

Photographs

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Photographs: Michael Wolf, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons; Lazaregagnidze, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons; Geoff Derrin, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons; Dinesh Valke from Thane, India, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (3).

Other Melaleuca 100 in the reference

Melaleuca acuminata Melaleuca acuminata Mallee honey myrtle Photo: CC BY, Rosalie LawrenceMelaleuca aestiva Melaleuca aestiva Kalbarri Beaufortia Photo: CC0, author not statedMelaleuca alternifolia Melaleuca alternifolia Narrow-leaf paperbark Photo: CC BY, Татьяна МаксимоваMelaleuca armillaris Melaleuca armillaris Bracelet honey myrtle Photo: CC0, author not statedMelaleuca beaufortioides Melaleuca beaufortioides Myrtaceae Photo: CC BY, T. HammerMelaleuca biconvexa Melaleuca biconvexa Biconvex paperbark Photo: CC BY-SA, Lachlan CopelandMelaleuca brachyandra Melaleuca brachyandra Myrtaceae Photo: CC0, DaderotMelaleuca bracteata Melaleuca bracteata River Tea-tree Photo: CC0, author not statedMelaleuca brevifolia Melaleuca brevifolia Mallee honey myrtle Photo: CC BY, T. HammerMelaleuca cajuputi Melaleuca cajuputi Cajuput Photo: CC0, author not statedMelaleuca capitata Melaleuca capitata Myrtaceae Photo: CC BY, Bryce Watts-ParkerMelaleuca comboynensis Melaleuca comboynensis Myrtaceae Photo: CC BY-SA, Alberto Salguero all 101 ›

Names & registers

Also known as Callistemon amoenus; Callistemon lanceolatus var. lophanthus; Callistemon leptostachyus; Callistemon lophanthus; Callistemon roseus and 13 more. (WCVP, RBG Kew)

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The record

Family
Myrtaceae
Described by
(Vent.) ined.
Native to
New South Wales, Queensland
Wild records
2 in range · 2 open

Every figure here is derived from public data by a stated rule and names its source; nothing about this species is written for its page by a person or by AI, apart from the marked, credited quotations. How →

Where this page came from built 2026-10-22
Kew's names (WCVP) kew.names answeredas of 2026-06-04Kew's entry Melaleuca lophantha (Vent.) ined. (plant_name_id 495182), read from Kew's names file
GBIF species record gbif.species not askedGBIF's backbone holds no one accepted species of this name, and a name it holds only as another species' synonym is not taken for this one, so GBIF's records were not asked
GBIF synonyms gbif.synonyms not askedGBIF's backbone holds no one accepted species of this name, and a name it holds only as another species' synonym is not taken for this one, so GBIF's records were not asked
GBIF common names gbif.vernacular not askedGBIF's backbone holds no one accepted species of this name, and a name it holds only as another species' synonym is not taken for this one, so GBIF's records were not asked
WCVP native range wcvp.distribution answeredas of 2026-06-04
GBIF occurrence records gbif.occurrences answeredasked 2026-10-22this species has no GBIF key of its own; its records are read under GBIF's keys for the names Kew's file holds as this plant, never by a name matched; GBIF occurrence download https://doi.org/10.15468/dl.hbdw64, of 2026-10-21; 0 records of GBIF's key 3173487, Callistemon lophanthus (Vent.) Sweet (Kew's file holds it as Callistemon lophanthus (Vent.) Sweet (synonym under Melaleuca lophantha (Vent.) ined.)): GBIF occurrence search API; 0 records of GBIF's key 3173489, Callistemon salignus f. hebestachys (Benth.) Voss (Kew's file holds it as Callistemon salignus f. hebestachys (Benth.) Voss (synonym under Melaleuca lophantha (Vent.) ined.)): GBIF occurrence search API; 0 records of GBIF's key 3173490, Callistemon lanceolatus var. lophanthus (Vent.) Heynh. (Kew's file holds it as Callistemon lanceolatus var. lophanthus (Vent.) Heynh. (synonym under Melaleuca lophantha (Vent.) ined.)): GBIF occurrence search API; 0 records of GBIF's key 3173492, Callistemon salignus var. hebestachyus Benth. (Kew's file holds it as Callistemon salignus var. hebestachyus Benth. (synonym under Melaleuca lophantha (Vent.) ined.)): GBIF occurrence search API; 0 records of GBIF's key 3173493, Metrosideros lophantha Vent. (Kew's file holds it as Metrosideros lophantha Vent. (synonym under Melaleuca lophantha (Vent.) ined.)): GBIF occurrence search API; 3 records of GBIF's key 11054444, Melaleuca lophantha (Vent.) (Kew's file holds it as Melaleuca lophantha (Vent.) ined. (accepted)): the GBIF download; 1 record within 1 km of a botanic garden, herbarium or zoo left out (1 at a botanic garden or arboretum; Wikidata's list)
Habitat climate climate nothing to reportasked 2026-10-22only 2 distinct land cells of the climate grid hold an in-range record placed to within 10 km; three are needed for an envelope
Wikidata wikidata nothing to reportasked 2026-10-22no item carries Kew's IPNI identifier 77177392-1, POWO 77177392-1
Wikipedia wikipedia nothing to reportasked 2026-10-22
iNaturalist taxon inat.taxon not asked
iNaturalist photographs, wild inat.photos.wild not asked
iNaturalist photographs, cultivated inat.photos.cultivated not asked
GBIF media gbif.media not askedGBIF's backbone holds no one accepted species of this name, and a name it holds only as another species' synonym is not taken for this one, so GBIF's records were not asked
Wikimedia Commons commons answeredasked 2026-10-22
OpenAlex papers openalex not askednot yet asked for this reference; a later fill takes the papers from OpenAlex's snapshot

Every source is recorded as having answered, reported nothing, refused, failed, not been asked, or answered twice where one answer is taken (“not taken: two items answered”), and, for a source asked when this page was built, when: the figures are as the source held them that day; a source read from a file (Kew's World Checklist, a GBIF download) says "as of" the file's day instead; a row carried from an earlier build of the page names that build instead. Only “nothing to report” is ever shown as an absence. Records came from 1 datasets via GBIF.org; each carries its own licence.

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