Melaleuca bracteata F.Muell., Myrtaceae

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Present on Pacific Islands?  yes

Primarily a threat at high elevations?  no

Risk assessment results:  High risk, score: 10 (Go to the risk assessment)

Other Latin names:  Melaleuca monticola J. M. Black

Common name(s): [more details]

English: black teatree, bracteate honey myrtle, mock olive, prickly-leaf teatree, river teatree, white cloudtree

Habit:  shrub/tree

Description:  "Shrub or tree to 15 m high with hard, fissured bark. Leaves alternate, narrow-ovate to ovate, 10-28 mm long, 1.5-3 mm wide, 5-11-veined, apex acute to acuminate, glabrous or occasionally pubescent; sessile. Inflorescences few- to many-flowered spikes 1.5-3.5 cm long; rachis pubescent. Flowers solitary or in threes within each bract, white. Petals ± circular, 1.5-2 mm long. Stamens 16-25 per bundle; claw 3-4 mm long. Fruit subglobose, 2-3 mm in diameter, orifice c. 2 mm in diameter; sepals persistent"  (New South Wales PlantNET).

Habitat/ecology:  "Along watercourses or on heavier inland soils in depressions"  (New South Wales PlantNET).

Propagation:  Seed

Native range:  Australia (New South Wales PlantNET); also cultivated (GRIN).

Presence:

Pacific
Country/Terr./St. & Island group	Location	Cited status & Cited as invasive & Cited as cultivated & Cited as aboriginal introduction?	Reference & Comments
State of Hawaii Hawaiian Islands	O‘ahu Island		Bishop Museum (U.S.A. Hawaii. Honolulu.) (1930) (voucher ID: BISH 60077) Taxon name on voucher: Melaleuca bracteata F.Muell.

Pacific Rim
Country/Terr./St. & Island group	Location	Cited status & Cited as invasive & Cited as cultivated & Cited as aboriginal introduction?	Reference & Comments
Australia Australia (continental)	New South Wales	native	National Herbarium of New South Wales (2013)
Australia Australia (continental)	Australia (continental)	native	U.S. Dept. Agr., Agr. Res. Serv. (2013) South Australia, Western Australia
Australia Australia (continental)	Northern Territory	native	U.S. Dept. Agr., Agr. Res. Serv. (2013)
Australia Australia (continental)	Queensland	native	U.S. Dept. Agr., Agr. Res. Serv. (2013)
Indonesia Indonesia	Indonesia (Republic of)	introduced invasive	U.S. Dept. Agr., Agr. Res. Serv. (2013) Java Naturalized
Singapore Singapore	Singapore (Republic of)	introduced cultivated	Chong, Kwek Yan/Tan, Hugh T. W./Corlett, Richard T. (2009) (p. 59) Cultivated only
United States (west coast) United States (west coast states)	USA (California)	introduced	U.S. Dept. Agr., Agr. Res. Serv. (2013)

Control:  If you know of control methods for Melaleuca bracteata, please let us know.