Taxon: Melaleuca alternifolia (Maiden & Betche) Cheel

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Common names:

• narrow-leaf paperbark   (Source: Pl Res SEAs 19:179.) – English
  
• narrow-leaf teatree   (Source: Aust Pl Common Names ) – English
  
• teatree   (Source: Herbs Commerce ) – English
  
• teoljebuske   (Source: Vara kulturvaxt namn ) – Swedish
  

Economic importance:

• Materials: essential oils   (fide Bottlebrush; Pl Res SEAs 19:179. 1999)
  
• Medicines: folklore   (fide CRC MedHerbs ed2; Herbs Commerce ed2)
  

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Distributional range:

• AUSTRALASIA
  Australia: Australia - New South Wales, Queensland

References:

• Aldén, B., S. Ryman & M. Hjertson. 2009. Våra kulturväxters namn - ursprung och användning. Formas, Stockholm (Handbook on Swedish cultivated and utility plants, their names and origin).
• American Herbal Products Association. 1992. Herbs of commerce.
• 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. 12:859.
• Duke, J. A. et al. 2002. CRC Handbook of medicinal herbs.
• Harden, G. J., ed. 1990–1993. Flora of New South Wales.
• Hnatiuk, R. J. 1990. Census of Australian vascular plants. Australian Flora and Fauna Series No. 11.
• Integrated Botanical Information System (IBIS). Australian plant common name database (on-line resource).
• McGuffin, M., J. T. Kartesz, A. Y. Leung, & A. O. Tucker. 2000. Herbs of commerce, ed. 2.
• Oyen, L. P. A. & Nguyen Xuan Dung, eds. 1999. Essential-oil plants. P. 19:179 in: Faridah Hanum, I. & L. J. G. van der Maesen, eds., Plant Resources of South-East Asia (PROSEA).
• Wrigley, J. W. & M. Fagg. 1993. Bottlebrushes, paperbarks and tea trees.

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Search AGRICOLA article citation database for citations referencing Melaleuca alternifolia.

Search NCBI's Entrez search engine for PubMed citations referencing Melaleuca alternifolia.

Search Biodiversity Heritage Library for historical publications referencing Melaleuca alternifolia.

Check other web resources for Melaleuca alternifolia (Maiden & Betche) Cheel:

• AVH: Australia's Virtual Herbarium
• Mansfeld: Mansfeld's World Database of Agricultural and Horticultural Crops
• 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.

Check other web resources for images:

• PlantSystematics.org
• 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.

Abbreviations & symbols in GRIN Taxonomy

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