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Melaleuca plumea Craven

Reference: Austral.Syst.Bot. 12:897 (1999)
Conservation Code: Not threatened
Naturalised Status: Native to Western Australia
Name Status: Current

Upright, spreading, multi-stemmed shrub, to 3 m high, bark rough, fibrous, grey. Fl. pink/purple, Oct to Dec. Grey-white sand, orange sand, clay. Flats, dune slopes, margins of salt lakes, river flats.

Distribution

IBRA Regions: Esperance Plains, Mallee.
IBRA Subregions: Eastern Mallee, Fitzgerald, Recherche.
Local Government Areas (LGAs): Esperance, Ravensthorpe.