Belongs within: Myrtaceae.
Contains: Melaleuca.
The Melaleuceae is a group of trees and shrubs bearing clustered flowers and very woody capsular fruits.
Characters (from Wilson et al. 2005): Trees or shrubs; leaves mostly spiral. Inflorescence often a spike-like (an aggregation of solitary flowers or triads commonly called "bottlebrushes") or head-like clusters of flowers; stamens often fasciculate, anthers fixed or versatile, dehiscing by longitudinal slits, pores or apical slits. Ovary inferior, 3-locular; ovules anatropous or hemitropous. Fruit a very woody capsule, often with delayed dehiscence; seeds linear.
<==Melaleuceae [Beaufortiinae, Callistemoninae, Calothamnineae, Melaleucinae] WO05
| i. s.: Eremaea pauciflora WO05, OS04
| Lamarchea WO05
| Petraeomyrtus WO05
| Phymatocarpus WO05
| Regelia ciliata WO05, RL05
|--Callistemon WO05
| |--C. phoeniceus OS04
| |--C. polandii WO05
| |--C. rugulosus KIW98
| `--C. salignum B88
`--+--Melaleuca WO05
|--Beaufortia WO05
| |--B. bracteosa OS04
| |--B. dampieri KM08
| |--B. elegans RL05
| |--B. incana OS04
| |--B. micrantha OS04
| | |--B. m. var. micrantha OS04
| | `--B. m. var. puberula OS04
| |--B. orbifolia WO05
| `--B. schaueri G04
`--Calothamnus WO05
|--C. lateralis GK00
|--C. lehmannii GK00
|--C. planifolius OS04
|--C. preissii GK00
|--C. quadrifidus OS04
|--C. sanguineus RL05
|--C. schaueri GK00
`--C. validus WO05
*Type species of generic name indicated
REFERENCES
[B88] Bouček, Z. 1988. Australasian Chalcidoidea (Hymenoptera): A biosystematic revision of genera of fourteen families, with a reclassification of species. CAB International: Wallingford (UK).
[G04] Gibson, N. 2004. Flora and vegetation of the Eastern Goldfields Ranges: part 7. Middle and South Ironcap, Digger Rock and Hatter Hill. Journal of the Royal Society of Western Australia 87 (2): 49-62.
[GK00] Gibson, N., & G. J. Keighery. 2000. Flora and vegetation of the Byenup-Muir reserve system, south-west Western Australia. CALMScience 3 (3): 323-402.
[KIW98] Kearns, C. A., D. W. Inouye & N. M. Waser. 1998. Endangered mutualisms: the conservation of plant-pollinator interactions. Annual Review of Ecology and Systematics 29: 83-112.
[KM08] Keighery, G. J., & W. Muir. 2008. Vegetation and vascular flora of Faure Island, Shark Bay, Western Australia. Records of the Western Australian Museum Supplement 75: 11-19.
[OS04] Obbens, F. J., & L. W. Sage. 2004. Vegetation and flora of a diverse upland remnant of the Western Australian wheatbelt (Nature Reserve A21064). Journal of the Royal Society of Western Australia 87 (1): 19-28.
[RL05] Rafferty, C., & B. B. Lamont. 2005. Selective feeding by macropods on vegetation regenerating following fire. Journal of the Royal Society of Western Australia 88 (4): 155-165.
[WO05] Wilson, P. G., M. M. O'Brien, M. M. Heslewood & C. J. Quinn. 2005. Relationships within Myrtaceae sensu lato based on a matK phylogeny. Plant Systematics and Evolution 251: 3-19.
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