Melaleuca nesophila 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: 8 (Go to the risk assessment)

Habit:  shrub

Description:  "Leaves alternate, obovate-oblanceolate to oblong-elliptic, 1-2(-4) cm long, 3-9 mm wide, rounded and sometimes mucronulate at the apex, conspicuously wrinkled but nervation often scarcely visible. Flowers in terminal heads 1.8-2.5 cm diameter, usually overtopped by outgrowing leafy axes after anthesis. Petals ± 2 mm long, scarious. Staminal claws about same length with 10-15 pink, lavender or purple-red filaments. Shrub 1-7 m tall, ± glabrous"  (Flora of Tropical East Africa in Aluka).

Habitat/ecology:  (no habitat/ecology info known by PIER)

Propagation:  Seed

Native range:  Western Australia (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.) (1941) (voucher ID: BISH 60084) Taxon name on voucher: Melaleuca nesophila 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)	Australia (continental)	native	U.S. Dept. Agr., Agr. Res. Serv. (2011)

Additional information:
Additional online information about Melaleuca nesophila is available from the Hawaiian Ecosystems at Risk project (HEAR).

Information about Melaleuca nesophila as a weed (worldwide references) may be available from the Global Compendium of Weeds (GCW).

Taxonomic information about Melaleuca nesophila may be available from the Germplasm Resources Information Network (GRIN).

References:

Bishop Museum (U.S.A. Hawaii. Honolulu.). 1941. Voucher specimen #BISH60084(Caum, E.L. s.n.).

U.S. Dept. Agr., Agr. Res. Serv. 2011. National Genetic Resources Program. Germplasm Resources Information Network (GRIN). Online searchable database.