View source for Melaleuca quinquenervia

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|accepted_name=Melaleuca quinquenervia
|accepted_authority=(Cavanilles) S. T. Blake
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Proc. Roy. Soc. Queensland
|place=69: 76. 1958
|year=1958
}}
|common_names=Punk tree;broad-leaved paperbark;niauoli
|basionyms={{Treatment/ID/Basionym
|name=Metrosideros quinquenervia
|authority=Cavanilles
|rank=species
|publication_title=Icon.
|publication_place=4: 19, plate 333.  1797
}}
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Myrtaceae;Melaleuca;Melaleuca quinquenervia
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Myrtaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Melaleuca]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Melaleuca quinquenervia]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 10
|mention_page=
|treatment_page=
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Trees,</b> 1–18 m; bark papery. <b>Leaves</b> alternate; blade usually narrowly elliptic to elliptic, rarely somewhat falcate, 5.5–12 × 1–3.1 cm, veins 5–7, longitudinal, surfaces glabrescent. <b>Inflorescences</b> 15–54-flowered, flowers in triads, pseudoterminal, sometimes also axillary distally, to 40 mm wide. <b>Flowers</b>: calyx lobes glabrous abaxially, margins scarious, 0.3–0.4 mm wide; petals deciduous, 2.5–3.5 mm; filaments connate in bundles of 5–10, white, cream, greenish white, green, creamy white, or creamy yellow, 10.5–20 mm, bundle claw 0.9–2.5 mm; style 11–18 mm; ovules ca. 50–65 per locule. <b>Capsules</b> 2.7–4 mm. <b>Cotyledons</b> obvolute. <b>2n</b> = 22.</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering year-round (commonly in fall).
|elevation=0–30 m.
|distribution=Fla.;La.;Asia (Malesia);Pacific Islands (New Caledonia);Australia;introduced also elsewhere in Pacific Islands (Hawaii);widely elsewhere.
|introduced=true
|discussion=<p>Melaleuca quinquenervia is a serious woody weed of wetland habitats in Florida and Louisiana. Mechanical control has not been successful and research in recent years has been focused upon biological control.</p>
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name=Melaleuca quinquenervia
|authority=(Cavanilles) S. T. Blake
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=
|basionyms=Metrosideros quinquenervia
|family=Myrtaceae
|phenology=Flowering year-round (commonly in fall).
|elevation=0–30 m.
|distribution=Fla.;La.;Asia (Malesia);Pacific Islands (New Caledonia);Australia;introduced also elsewhere in Pacific Islands (Hawaii);widely elsewhere.
|introduced=true
|reference=None
|publication title=Proc. Roy. Soc. Queensland
|publication year=1958
|special status=
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|genus=Melaleuca
|species=Melaleuca quinquenervia
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