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Published In: Loudon's Hortus Britannicus. A catalogue . . . 197. 1830. (Hort. Brit.) Name publication detailView in BotanicusView in Biodiversity Heritage Library
 

Project Name Data (Last Modified On 4/5/2012)
Acceptance : Accepted
Project Data     (Last Modified On 4/5/2012)
Contributor Text:

ABDUL GHAFOOR

Contributor Institution:

Don McNair Herbarium, School of Environmental and Life Sciences, The University of Newcastle, Callaghan, NSW-2308, Australia

E-mail:abdul.ghafour@newcastle.edu.au; artemisiella89@gmail.com

Synonym Text:

Metrosideros viminalis Sol. ex Gaertn., Fruct. 1: 171. t. 34 fig. 4.1789; C. citrinus non (Curt.) Stapf: R. R. Stewart, Ann. Cat. Vasc. Pl. W. Pak. & Kashm. 503. 1972.; Melaleuca viminalis (Sol. ex. Gaertn.) Byrnes, Austrobaileyen 2: 75. 1984.

Flower/Fruit:

Fl. Per.: September – March

Type:

Queensland, Australia, Endeavour River, Banks & Solander s.n. (BM, n.v.).

Distribution:

A native of Australia; introduced in Pakistan and elsewhere as an ornamental plant.

Comment/Acknowledgements:

Vern.: Bottlebrush

Map Location:

B-8 Diamer, Northern Areas, Gilgit, cult. tree, 18.9.2001 Fazal Karim 59 (KUH); D-8 40 miles from Lahore on way to Changa Manga, 3.3.1978 M. Qaiser & Shaharyar 6946 (KUH); F-4 Khairpur, Sind, cult. tall tree, fls. red S.M.H.Jafri s. n. (KUH); G-4 Karachi, Ferozabad Thana, PECHS, 5. 2. 78, Saida Qureshi s. n. (KUH); Gandhi Garden, Karachi, 4.3.66 Saida Qureshi s.n. (KUH); Boys hostel Garden, Karachi University Campus, 21.3. 71 Abrar Hussain s. n; (KUH).


 

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Small shrub to small tree, 1.5 – 5 (-6) m high, with grey cracking bark and branches arching or weeping, silky hairy twigs. Leaves sessile, linear-lanceolate, (2.5-) 3 – 6 (-7) x 0.5 – 1 cm, silky hairy when young, glabrous on maturity, basally attenuate, punctuate glandular, subadpressed to stem. Spike, 5 – 15 (-20) cm long, beset with dense, patent white hairs, growing beyond into a leafy shoot. Bracts white, hairy, linear to linear oblong, caducous. Flowers axillary, bright red. Calyx tube urceolate, angular, densely white-hairy, c. 5 mm long, with deltoid – ovate, obtuse, centrally gland-dotted teeth. Petals ± green oblong-elliptic, 3 – 3.5 x 2 – 2.5 mm, obtuse. Stamen filaments 2.5 – 3 cm long, anthers dark purple. Fruits cupular, light brown, 5 – 6 x 4 – 5 mm.

 
 
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