Melaleuca citrina (Curtis) Dum.Cours.
First published in Bot. Cult. 3: 282 (1802)
This species is accepted
The native range of this species is E. & SE. Australia. It is a shrub or tree and grows primarily in the subtropical biome. It is has environmental uses and social uses, as a medicine and for fuel and food.
Distribution
Native to:
New South Wales, Queensland, Victoria
Introduced into:
Andaman Is., California, Comoros, India, Kenya, Louisiana, Marianas, Mexico Gulf, Nicobar Is., Tanzania, Trinidad-Tobago, Yugoslavia
Synonyms
Homotypic Synonyms
- Callistemon citrinus (Curtis) Skeels in Bull. Bur. Pl. Industr. U.S.D.A. 282: 49 (1913)
- Callistemon lanceolatus Sweet in Hort. Brit.: 155 (1826), nom. superfl.
- Callistemon lanceolatus var. sparsus Regel in Index Seminum (LE, Petropolitanus) 1856: 39 (1856), nom. superfl.
- Metrosideros citrina Curtis in Bot. Mag. 8: t. 260 (1794)
- Metrosideros lanceolata Sm. in Trans. Linn. Soc. London 3: 272 (1797), nom. superfl.
Heterotypic Synonyms
- Callistemon citrinus var. splendens Stapf in Bot. Mag. 150: t. 9050 (1925)
- Callistemon cunninghamii K.Koch in Wochenschr. Gärtnerei Pflanzenk. 6: 294 (1863)
- Callistemon flavescens Regel in Gartenflora 10: 51 (1861)
- Callistemon laevis Stapf in Bot. Mag. 150: t. 9050 (1925), pro syn.
- Callistemon lanceolatus var. pendulus Regel in Index Seminum (LE, Petropolitanus) 1865: 53 (1866)
- Callistemon lanceolatus f. semperflorens (G.Lodd.) Voss in Vilm. Blumengärtn., ed. 3. 1: 312 (1894)
- Callistemon lanceolatus var. semperflorens (G.Lodd.) Heynh. in Alph. Aufz. Gew.: 107 (1846)
- Callistemon lilacinus Cheel in Proc. Linn. Soc. New South Wales 50: 263 (1925)
- Callistemon lilacinus f. albus Cheel in Proc. Linn. Soc. New South Wales 50: 262 (1925)
- Callistemon lilacinus f. carminus Cheel in Proc. Linn. Soc. New South Wales 50: 263 (1925)
- Callistemon longifolius (Dum.Cours.) Anon. in Index Seminum (KRA, Cracow) 1867: 17 (1868)
- Callistemon marginatus (Cav.) Sweet in Hort. Brit.: 155 (1826)
- Callistemon pendulus Regel in Gartenflora 8: 289 (1859)
- Callistemon pendulus var. confertus Regel in Index Seminum (LE, Petropolitanus) 1866: 106 (1867)
- Callistemon pendulus var. genuinus Regel in Index Seminum (LE, Petropolitanus) 1866: 105 (1867), not validly publ.
- Callistemon pendulus var. rigidus Regel in Index Seminum (LE, Petropolitanus) 1866: 106 (1867)
- Callistemon semperflorens G.Lodd. in Bot. Cab. 6: t. 523 (1821)
- Metrosideros angustifolia Dum.Cours. in Bot. Cult., ed. 2, 5: 378 (1811), nom. illeg.
- Metrosideros falcata Dum.Cours. in Bot. Cult., ed. 2, 5: 378 (1811)
- Metrosideros latifolia Dum.Cours. in Bot. Cult., ed. 2, 5: 379 (1811)
- Metrosideros longifolia Dum.Cours. in Bot. Cult., ed. 2, 5: 378 (1811)
- Metrosideros marginata Cav. in Icon. 4: 18 (1797)
- Metrosideros myrtifolia Hoffmanns. in Verz. Pfl.-Kult.: 80 (1824)
- Metrosideros semperflorens G.Lodd. in Bot. Cab. 6: t. 523 (1821), nom. nud.
Publications
POWO follows these authorities in accepting this name:
- Flora of North America Editorial Committee (2021). Flora of North America North of Mexico 10: 1-456. Oxford University Press, New York, Oxford.
An alternative taxonomy had been proposed by the following authorities:
- Govaerts, R. (2003). World Checklist of Selected Plant Families Database in ACCESS: 1-216203. The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. [Cited as Callistemon citrinus.]
- Govaerts, R., Sobral, N., Ashton, P., Barrie, F., Holst, B.K., Landrum, L.L., Matsumoto, K., Fernanda Mazine, F., Nic Lughadha, E., Proença, C. & al. (2008). World Checklist of Myrtaceae: 1-455. Kew Publishing, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. [Cited as Callistemon citrinus.]
Catálogo de Plantas y Líquenes de Colombia
- Bernal, R., Gradstein, S.R. & Celis, M. (eds.). 2015. Catálogo de plantas y líquenes de Colombia. Instituto de Ciencias Naturales, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Bogotá. http://catalogoplantasdecolombia.unal.edu.co
Kew Backbone Distributions
- Baksh-Comeau, Y., Maharaj, S.S., Adams, C.D., Harris, S.A., Filer, D.L. & Hawthorne, W.D. (2016). An annotated checklist of the vascular plants of Trinidad and Tobago with analysis of vegetation types and botanical 'hotspots'. Phytotaxa 250: 1-431.
- Balkrishna, A. (2018). Flora of Morni Hills (Research & Possibilities): 1-581. Divya Yoga Mandir Trust.
- Barthelat, F. (2019). La flore illustrée de Mayotte: 1-687. Biotope éditions.
- Flora of North America Editorial Committee (2021). Flora of North America North of Mexico 10: 1-456. Oxford University Press, New York, Oxford.
- Fosberg, F.R., Sachet, M.-H., Oliver, R. (1979). A geographical checklist of the Micronesian Dicotyledonae. Micronesica; Journal of the College of Guam 15: 41-295.
- Pandey, R.P. & Dilwakar, P.G. (2008). An integrated check-list flora of Andaman and Nicobar islands, India. Journal of Economic and Taxonomic Botany 32: 403-500.
Useful Plants and Fungi of Colombia
- Bernal, R., Gradstein, S.R., & Celis, M. (eds.). (2020). Catálogo de Plantas y Líquenes de Colombia. v1.1. Universidad Nacional de Colombia. Dataset/Checklist. https://doi.org/10.15472/7avdhn
- Diazgranados et al. (2021). Catalogue of plants of Colombia. Useful Plants and Fungi of Colombia project. In prep.
- Diazgranados, M., Allkin, B., Black N., Cámara-Leret, R., Canteiro C., Carretero J., Eastwood R., Hargreaves S., Hudson A., Milliken W., Nesbitt, M., Ondo, I., Patmore, K., Pironon, S., Turner, R., Ulian, T. (2020). World Checklist of Useful Plant Species. Produced by the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Knowledge Network for Biocomplexity.
- GBIF.org (2021). GBIF species matching tool. https://www.gbif.org/tools/species-lookup
- Medicinal Plant Names Services (MPNS) v.10 (2021); http://mpns.kew.org/
Other Data
Other Kew resources that provide information on this taxon:
Date | Reference | Identified As | Barcode | Type Status | Has image? |
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Jan 1, 2010 | s.coll. [s.n.], Australia | K000793595 | lectotype | Yes | |
Jan 1, 1976 | Drummond, J. [148], Australia | K000793518 | Yes | ||
Jan 1, 1976 | Drummond, J. [148], Australia | K000793516 | Unknown type material | Yes | |
Jan 1, 1976 | Maxwell, G. [s.n.], Western Australia | K000793519 | Yes | ||
Jan 1, 1976 | Maxwell, G. [s.n.], Western Australia | K000793520 | Yes | ||
Jan 1, 1926 | Drummond, J. [148], Australia | K000793517 | Unknown type material | Yes | |
Callistemon citrinus | 26247.000 | No |
Sources
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Catálogo de Plantas y Líquenes de Colombia
- http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0
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Colombian resources for Plants made Accessible
- ColPlantA 2021. Published on the Internet at http://colplanta.org
- http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/
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Flora of Tropical East Africa
- Flora of Tropical East Africa
- http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0
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Herbarium Catalogue Specimens
- Digital Image © Board of Trustees, RBG Kew http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/
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Kew Backbone Distributions
- The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants 2023. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and https://powo.science.kew.org/
- © Copyright 2022 World Checklist of Vascular Plants. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0
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Kew Living Collection Database
- Common Names from Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew Living Collection https://www.kew.org/
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Kew Names and Taxonomic Backbone
- The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants 2023. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and https://powo.science.kew.org/
- © Copyright 2022 International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0
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Kew Science Photographs
- Copyright applied to individual images
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Useful Plants and Fungi of Colombia
- http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0