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Service Notice

The Western Australian Herbarium’s collections management system, WAHerb, and DBCA’s taxonomic names application, WACensus, have been set to read-only mode since 1 October 2025. Recent taxonomic changes are not reflected in Florabase, herbarium collections, or in the census. We are hoping to be able to reinstate services around December 15; we will provide an update at that time.

The notice period started at 9:00 am on Wednesday, 1 October 2025 +08:00 and will end at 12:00 pm on Monday, 15 December 2025 +08:00.

Melaleuca thapsina Craven

Reference
Austral.Syst.Bot. 12:908 (1999)
Conservation Code
Not threatened
Naturalised Status
Native to Western Australia
Name Status
Current

Upright shrub, to 4 m high, bark thin, papery, dark. Fl. cream-yellow, Mar or Sep to Nov. Grey sand, brown gravelly sand or clay, silt, granite, laterite. Flats, slopes of range, clay depressions, edges of small lakes, road verges.

Amanda Spooner, Descriptive Catalogue, 21 January 2003

Distribution

IBRA Regions
Coolgardie, Esperance Plains, Mallee.
IBRA Subregions
Eastern Goldfield, Eastern Mallee, Fitzgerald, Mardabilla, Recherche, Southern Cross, Western Mallee.
Local Government Areas (LGAs)
Dundas, Esperance, Jerramungup, Lake Grace, Ravensthorpe.