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Vernacular names of plants within the Genus Melaleuca

Hierarchical position of the Genus Melaleuca

Regnum  Plantae common name: The plant kingdom       Divisio  Magnoliophyta Cronquist syn. Angiospermophyta / Anthophyta pub. Takht. & Zimmerm. ex Reveal, Phytologia 79: 70. 29 Apr 1996. common name: angiosperms, flowering plants       Subdivisio  Magnoliophytina Frohne & U. Jensen ex Reveal pub. Phytologia 79: 70. 29 Apr 1996. common name: Angiosperms       Classis  Rosopsida Batsch pub. Dispos. Gen. Pl. Jenens.: 28. 1788.       Subclassis  Rosidae Takht. pub. Sist. Filog. Cvetk. Rast.: 264. Jan-Mar 1967.       SuperOrdo  Myrtanae Takht. pub. Sist. Filog. Cvetk. Rast.: 295. Jan-Mar 1967.       Ordo  Myrtales Rchb. pub. Bot. Damen: 475. 1828.       Subordo  Myrtineae Burnett pub. Outl. Bot.: 616, 617, 1092, 1128. Jun 1835.       Familia  Myrtaceae Juss. pub. Gen. Pl.: 322. 4 Aug 1789. common name: Myrtles       Tribus  Melaleuceae Burnett pub. Outl. Bot.: 712. Jun 1835.       Subtribus  Melaleucinae DC. pub. Prodr. 3: 210. mid Mar 1828.       Genus  Melaleuca L. pub. (1767) common name: melaleuca

Named members of the Genus Melaleuca

1	Species  cajuputi Powell common name: cajeput
2	Species  leucadendra (L.) L. common name: cajeput
3	Species  leucadendron auct. non (L.) L. syn. Melaleuca quinquenervia common name: cajeput, cajeput
4	Species  linariifolia Sm. common name: cajeput
5	Species  quinquenervia (Cav.) Blake common name: punktree

Individual specimen entries are published in the sample database supplied with The Compleat Botanica for species or varieties of this supra-generic taxon.

Additional information is available in the commercial version of The Compleat Botanica software for species with this symbol.

For a description of the methodology followed in establishing this hierarchy see the note Nomenclature used in The Compleat Botanica.