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Melaleuca biconvexa

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is able to resprout after fire but faces a number of threats to its survival including land clearing, alteration of drainage patterns and swamp reclamation, grazing and trampling by stock and competition from noxious aquatic weeds such as
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are arranged in five bundles around the flower with 10 to 20 stamens per bundle. Flowering occurs over 3 to 4 weeks in September and November and is followed by fruit which are urn-shaped, woody
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grows to a height of 3–10 m (10–30 ft) (sometimes to 20 m (70 ft)) and has fibrous to papery bark. Its leaves are arranged in alternating pairs (
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The flowers are cream to white, at or near the ends of the branches in heads of 2 to 10 flowers, the heads up to 17 millimetres (0.7 in) in diameter. The
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about 3–5 mm (0.1–0.2 in) in diameter and 3–4 mm (0.1–0.2 in) long with the
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was misapplied to this taxon for many years before Byrnes's 1984 paper.
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This melaleuca occurs in scattered populations in coastal areas from
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Brophy, Joseph J.; Craven, Lyndley A.; Doran, John C. (2013).
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Melaleucas : their botany, essential oils and uses
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L. (Myrtaceae) in northern and eastern Australia, 1"
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Index


Conservation status
Vulnerable
EPBC Act
Scientific classification
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Plantae
Tracheophytes
Angiosperms
Eudicots
Rosids
Myrtales
Myrtaceae
Melaleuca
Binomial name
Byrnes
family
Myrtaceae
New South Wales
decussate
stamens
capsules
sepals
Norman Byrnes
Austrobaileya
specific epithet
Melaleuca pauciflora
Turcz.
Port Macquarie
Jervis Bay

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