Taxon: Melaleuca quinquenervia (Cav.) S. T. Blake
Genus: Melaleuca
Family: Myrtaceae subfamily: Myrtoideae tribe: Melaleuceae.
Nomen number: 105723
Place of publication: Proc. Roy. Soc. Queensland 69:76. 1958
Name verified on: 14-Dec-2004 by ARS Systematic Botanists. Last updated: 14-Dec-2004
Species priority site is: Natl. Germplasm Repository - Miami (MIA).
NO ACCESSIONS IN
NPGS UNDER THIS NAME.
SPECIES RESTRICTED BECAUSE FEDERAL AND STATE NOXIOUS
WEED
- A declared noxious weed by
USDA-APHIS.
- A declared aquatic or terrestrial noxious
weed and/or noxious-weed seed in these U.S. states (see state noxious weed lists), with links
to state information or web documents:
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FLª*, MAª, NCª, OKª, SCª, TXª.
| ªAquatic.
| *Terrestrial.
| °In seed.
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- Link to noxious weed information from

- Link to species profile at

Native: (links to
other web resources are provided for some distributions)
- ASIA-TROPICAL
Malesia: Papua New Guinea
- AUSTRALASIA
Australia: Australia - New South Wales, Queensland
- PACIFIC
Southwestern Pacific: New Caledonia
Naturalized: - naturalized in s. Africa, s.e. United States, West Indies, & Hawaii
- Austin, D. F.
1996. Econ. Bot.
50:25. [mentions].
- Blake, S. T. & C. Roff.
1958. The honey flora of south-eastern Queensland. (Honey F SE Queensl)
- Center for Aquatic and Invasive Plants.
Florida state list aquatic & wetland noxious weeds - from Department of Environmental Protection - on-line document. (FL AquaNoxweed)
- Conant, P. et al.
1997. Appendix. Selected plant species interfering with resource management goals in North American natural areas. In J. O. Luken & J. W. Thieret, eds., Assessment and management of plant invasions. (Pl Invasion)
- Craven, L. A. & B. J. Lepschi.
1999. Enumeration of the species and infraspecific taxa of Melaleuca (Myrtaceae) occurring in Australia and Tasmania.
Austral. Syst. Bot.
12:899.
- Dray, F. A., Jr. et al.
2006. Invasion history of Melaleuca quinquenervia (Cav.) S. T. Blake in Florida.
Castanea
71:210–225.
- Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN (FAO).
2010. Ecocrop - on-line resource. (Ecocrop)
- Hnatiuk, R. J.
1990. Census of Australian vascular plants. Australian Flora and Fauna Series No. 11. (L Aust)
- Lazarides, M. & B. Hince.
1993. CSIRO Handbook of Economic Plants of Australia. (Econ Pl Aust)
- Leung, A. Y. & S. Foster.
1996. Encyclopedia of common natural ingredients used in food, drugs, and cosmetics, ed. 2. (Ency CNatIn)
[mentions].
- Oyen, L. P. A. & Nguyen Xuan Dung, eds.
1999. Essential-oil plants.
Plant Resources of South-East Asia (PROSEA). (Pl Res SEAs)
19:127; 131–135. [mentions].
- Seed Regulatory and Testing Branch, Agricultural Marketing Service, U.S.D.A.
1999. State noxious-weed seed requirements recognized in the administration of the Federal Seed Act. (State Noxweed Seed)
- Serbesoff-King, K.
2003. Melaleuca in Florida: a literature review on the taxonomy, distribution, biology, ecology, economic importance and control measures.
J. Aquatic Pl. Managem.
41:98–112.
- USDA National Agricultural Library.
National Invasive Species Information Center (Nat Invasive Sp Info)
- Weber, E.
2003. Invasive plant species of the world: a reference guide to environmental weeds. (Invasive Pl Spec)
- Wrigley, J. W. & M. Fagg.
1993. Bottlebrushes, paperbarks and tea trees. (Bottlebrush)
- More:
Synonyms:
Check other databases for Melaleuca quinquenervia (Cav.) S. T. Blake:
- AVH: Australia's Virtual Herbarium Map Display Interface
- PLANTS: USDA-NRCS Database of Plants of
the United States and its Territories
- Mansfeld: Mansfeld's World Database of Agricultural and Horticultural Crops
- ICRA: International Cultivar Registration Authority for Melaleuca quinquenervia cultivars
- ePIC: Electronic Plant Information Centre of Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
- AGRICOLA: Article Citation Database or NAL Catalog of USDA's National Agricultural Library
- Entrez: NCBI's search engine for PubMed
citations, GenBank sequences, etc.
Note: Defaults to a search by genus
or species epithet if species binomial not found.
Images:
- More:
- Check PlantSystematics.org for additional images
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Images Note: Be advised that their identity may be
inaccurate. Proper identification of a plant may require
specialized taxonomic knowledge or comparison with
properly documented herbarium material.
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Cite as: USDA, ARS, National Genetic Resources Program.
Germplasm Resources Information Network - (GRIN) [Online Database]. National Germplasm Resources Laboratory, Beltsville,
Maryland.
URL: http://www.ars-grin.gov/cgi-bin/npgs/html/taxon.pl?105723 (09 February 2010)
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