Melaleuca viridiflora

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Interesting Facts

Description

Family Myrtaceae

Trees or shrubs , evergreen , usually with essential oils-containing cavities in foliage , branchlets , and flowers. Stipules absent or small and caducous . Leaves opposite, occasionally alternate, occasionally ternate or pseudo-whorled; leaf blade with secondary veins pinnate or basal, often with intramarginal veins near margin , margin usually entire. Inflorescences axillary or terminal , cymose but variously arranged, 1- to many-flowered. Flowers bisexual , sometimes polygamous, actinomorphic . Hypanthium usually adnate to ovary and prolonged above it. Calyx lobes (3 or) 4 or 5 or more, distinct or connate into a calyptra. Petals 4 or 5, sometimes absent, distinct or connate into a calyptra, sometimes coherent and pseudocalyptrate. Stamens usually numerous , in 1 to several whorls; filaments distinct or connate into 5 bundles opposite petals; anthers 2-celled, dorsifixed or basifixed , dehiscing longitudinally or rarely terminally; connectives usually terminating in 1 or more apical glands . Ovary inferior, semi-inferior, or very rarely superior, carpels 2 to more, locules 1 to many, pseudoseptum sometimes present, placentation usually axile but occasionally parietal ; ovules 1 to several per locule. Style single; stigma single. Fruit a capsule, berry, drupaceous berry, or drupe, 1- to many-seeded. Seeds without endosperm or endosperm sparse and thin; testa cartilaginous or thinly membranous, sometimes absent; embryo straight or curved .

About 130 genera and 4500-5000 species: Mediterranean region, sub-Saharan Africa, Madagascar, tropical and temperate Asia, Australia, Pacific islands, tropical and South America; 10 genera (five introduced ) and 121 species (50 endemic, 32 introduced treated here) in China.

Many Myrtaceae are cultivated garden ornamentals , street trees, or plantation trees. Some members of tribe Syzygieae are grown as fruit crops. In addition to the cultivated members of the family treated here, some others grown in China include Acca sellowiana (O. Berg ) Burrett (Feijoa sellowiana (O. Berg) O. Berg), Myrtus communis Linnaeus, and Syncarpia glomulifera (Smith) Niedenzu.[1]

Genus Melaleuca

Trees or shrubs . Leaves alternate or opposite-decussate, petiolate or sessile; leaf blade leathery, secondary veins basal and parallel to leaf axis or pinnate. Flowers bisexual or female sterile , arranged in spikes or heads and pseudoterminal or lateral . Hypanthium subglobose or campanulate . Sepals 5, caducous or persistent . Petals 5. Stamens numerous , greenish white; filaments basally connate into 5 bundles opposite petals; anthers dorsifixed , cells parallel, dehiscing longitudinally. Ovary slightly adnate to hypanthium, 3-loculed, apex prominent ; ovules numerous. Style linear ; stigma enlarged. Capsule semiglobose to globose , apically dehiscing. Seeds obovoid-oblong to obovoid ; testa thin; embryo straight.

About 280 species: mainly in Australia, but also in Indonesia, New Caledonia, and Papua New Guinea; several species cultivated in China but only one commonly cultivated.

Callistemon is to be included in Melaleuca as the two genera overlap in many morphological aspects . Several species are occasionally cultivated in China under Callistemon, including C. citrinus (Curtis) Skeels (C. lanceolatus Candolle), C. linearis (Smith) Candolle (C. rigidus R. Brown), C. rugulosus (Schlechtendal ex Link) Candolle (C. coccineus F. Mueller), C. salignus (Smith) Colvill ex Sweet, and C. viminalis (Solander ex Gaertner) G. Don ex Loudon. The cultivated species treated under the name M. parviflora Lindley in FRPS (53(1) : 55. 1984) is not that species; no material has been seen and its true identity is unknown.[2]

Physical Description

Biology

Growth

Culture: Space 15-20' apart.

Sunlight: Sun Exposure: Full sun .

Taxonomy

Notes

Name Status: Accepted Name .

Last scrutiny: 11-Nov-2003

Similar Species

Members of the genus Melaleuca

ZipcodeZoo has pages for 54 species, subspecies, varieties, forms, and cultivars in this genus:

M. acerosa (Coastal Honey Myrtle) · M. alternifolia (Manuka) · M. armillaris (Bracelet Honey-Myrtle) · M. bracteata (Black Tea Tree) · M. brongniartii (Honey Myrtle) · M. cajuputi (Cajeput) · M. calothamnoides (Honey Myrtle) · M. capitata (Honey Myrtle) · M. cardiophylla (Tangling Melaleuca) · M. citrina (Honey Myrtle) · M. coccinea (Goldfields Bottlebrush) · M. conothamnoides (Purple Pom-Pom Myrtle) · M. cordata (Heart-Leaf Honey Myrtle) · M. cuticularis (Saltwater Paperbark) · M. decora (White Cloud Trea) · M. decussata (Cajeput) · M. diosmatifolia (Dotted Melaleuca) · M. diosmifolia (Green Honey Myrtle) · M. elliptica (Crimson Honey Myrtle) · M. ericifolia (Australian Rosalina) · M. erubescens (Pink Honey Myrtle) · M. fulgens (Scarlet Honey Myrtle) · M. gibbosa (Slender Honey-Myrtle) · M. huegelii (Chenille Honeymyrtle) · M. hypericifolia (Cajuput) · M. incana (Gray Honeymyrtle) · M. incana 'Velvet Carpet' (Velvet Carpet Gray Melaleuca) · M. lanceolata (Moonah) · M. lateritia (Robin Red-Breast) · M. leucadendra (Cajeput) · M. linariifolia (Cajeput Tree) · M. macronychia (Melaleuca) · M. megacephala (Honey Myrtle) · M. micromera (Wattle Honey Myrtle) · M. nesophila (Pink Melaleuca) · M. nodosa (Ball Honey Myrtle) · M. pulchella (Claw Honey Myrtle) · M. pustulata (Cranbrook Paperbark) · (Bottle Brush Tree) · M. radula (Graceful Honey Myrtle) · M. rhaphiophylla (Swamp Paperbark) · M. serpyllifolia (Melaleuca) · M. spathulata (Pom-Pom Honey Myrtle) · M. squamea (Swamp Melaleuca) · M. squarrosa (Sweet-Scented Paperbark) · M. styphelioides (Prickly Paperbark) · M. suberosa (Cork-Bark Honey Myrtle) · M. tamariscina (Bushhouse Paperbark) · M. thymifolia (Feather Honey Myrtle) · M. uncinata (Broom Bush) · M. viminalis (Bottlebrush) · M. viminalis 'Scarlett O'Hara' (Scarlett O'Hara Bottlebrush) · M. viridiflora 'Red Flowering Form' (Red Broadleaf Paperbark) · M. wilsonii (Violet Honey-Myrtle)

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Further Reading

• Bats from New Caledonia, the Solomon Islands, and New Hebrides [by] Colin Campbell Sanborn and A. J. Nicholson. 31 1950 [Chicago]Chicago Natural History Museum, 1950. url p. 324.
• Biosphere Reserves, Compilation 4, October 1986: programme on man and the biosphere (MAB) IUCN Conservation Monitoring Centre url p. 34.
• Check-list of the species of fishes known from the Philippine Archipelago, Manila, Bureau of printing, 1910. url p. 402.
• Genera insectorum / publiés par P. Wytsman. Bruxelles, L. Desmet-Verteneuil [etc.]1902-1970. url p. 180, p. 460.
• Hortus suburbanus Calcuttensis; A catalogue of the plants which have been cultivated in the Hon. East India Company's botanical garden, Calcutta, and in the Serampore botanical garden. By the late J. O. Voigt, printed under the superintendence of W. Griffith. Calcutta, Bishop's College Press, 1845. url p. 50.
• IUCN Directory of Protected Areas in Oceania IUCN url p. 229, p. 230, p. 442.
• Ibis. [London]Published for the British Ornithologists' Union by Academic Press. url p. 510.
• Journal of ethnobiology. 2 1982 Flagstaff, Ariz.: Center for Western Studies, 1981- url p. 71.
• Malaysia and the Pacific archipelagoes, ed. and greatly extended from Dr. A. R. Wallace's "Australasia", by F. H. H. Guillemard. London: E. Stanfod, 1894. url p. 458, p. 566.
• Plant names, scientific and popular, including in the case of each plant the correct botanical name in accordance with the reformed nomenclature, together with botanical and popular synonyms. .. Comp. from the most authentic sources by A. B. Lyons. Detroit, Nelson, Baker & Co., 1900. url p. 74.
• Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington. Washington, etc.: Entomological Society of Washington url p. 313, p. 316, p. 322.
• Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales. Sydney, Linnean Society of New South Wales. url , p. 252, p. 597, p. 84.
• Suggestions received by the Agricultural & Horticultural Society of India for extending the cultivation and introduction of useful and ornamental plants: with a view to the improvement of the agricultural and commercial resources of India / compiled by Henry Harpur Spry. Calcutta: Bishop's College Press, 1841. url p. 35.
• The Bradley bibliography; a guide to the literature of the woody plants of the world published before the beginning of the twentieth century; Cambridge, Riverside Press, 1911-18. url p. 630.
• The Gardeners' chronicle: a weekly illustrated journal of horticulture and allied subjects. London: [Gardeners Chronicle], 1874-1955. url p. 111, p. 85.
• The Journal of the Linnean Society. Botany. 45 1920-22 London: the Society: Longman, Green, Longman, Roberts & Green: ||Williams and Norgate, 1865-1968. url p. 308.
• The Journal of the Quekett Microscopical Club. [London: Quekett Microscopical Club, 1868]-1966. url .
• The Phytologist: a popular botanical miscellany. London, John van Voorst, 1844-56. url p. 738.
• The chemical synthesis of vital products and the interrelations between organic compounds / By Raphael Meldola. London: E. Arnold, 1904. url p. 205.
• The flora of the Northern Territory, Melbourne, McCarron, Bird & Co., Printers, 1917. url , , .
• The miscellaneous botanical works of Robert Brown vol. II, containing III. systematic memoirs, and IV. contributions to systematic works. London: Published for the Ray Society by R. Hardwicke, 1867. url .
• The useful native plants of Australia, (including Tasmania) by J. H. Maiden. Sydney, Turner and Henderson, 1889. url p. 569.
• Chang Hung-ta & Miau Ru-hwai. 1984. Myrtaceae. In: Chen Chieh, ed., Fl. Reipubl. Popularis Sin. 53(1): 28-135.
• Chang Hung-ta & Miau Ru-hwai. 1984. Myrtaceae. In: Chen Chieh, ed., Fl. Reipubl. Popularis Sin. 53(1): 28-135.

Notes

Contributors

• Brands, S.J. (comp.) 1989-present. The Taxonomicon. Universal Taxonomic Services, Zwaag, The Netherlands. Accessed January 10, 2012.
• Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Accessed March 15, 2008. http://www.gbif.org Mediated distribution data from 9 providers.
• Ruggiero M., Gordon D., Bailly N., Kirk P., Nicolson D. (2011). The Catalogue of Life Taxonomic Classification, Edition 2, Part A. In: Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life: 2011 Annual Checklist (Bisby F.A., Roskov Y.R., Orrell T.M., Nicolson D., Paglinawan L.E., Bailly N., Kirk P.M., Bourgoin T., Baillargeon G., Ouvrard D., eds). DVD; Species 2000: Reading, UK.
• World Checklist of Selected Plant Families. Release date: November 27, 2009

Data Sources

Accessed through GBIF Data Portal March 15, 2008:

• Australian National Herbarium (CANB)
• Missouri Botanical Garden
• National Herbarium of New South Wales: Plants of Papua New Guinea

Identifiers

• Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 1836831
• Catalogue of Life Accepted Name Code: Kew-123973
• Global Biodiversity Information Facility Taxonkey: 15646081
• Globally Unique Identifier: urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:598143-1
• Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 753901

Footnotes

1. Jie Chen & Lyn A. Craven "Myrtaceae". in Flora of China Vol. 13 Page 321. Published by Science Press (Beijing) and Missouri Botanical Garden Press. Online at EFloras.org. [back]
2. Jie Chen & Lyn A. Craven "Melaleuca". in Flora of China Vol. 13 Page 321, 328. Published by Science Press (Beijing) and Missouri Botanical Garden Press. Online at EFloras.org. [back]

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