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Melaleuca rigidifolia Turcz.

Reference
Bull.Cl.Phys.-Math.Acad.Imp.Sci.Saint-Pétersbourg 10:342 (1852)
Conservation Code
Not threatened
Naturalised Status
Native to Western Australia
Name Status
Current

Sprawling to upright shrub, to 1.5 m high. Fl. pink-purple, Jul to Oct. Gravelly or sandy clays, grey loamy sand, laterite, granite. Salty claypans, gravel pits, near railway line.

Amanda Spooner, Descriptive Catalogue, 29 June 1999
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Distribution

IBRA Regions
Coolgardie, Esperance Plains, Jarrah Forest, Mallee.
IBRA Subregions
Eastern Goldfield, Eastern Mallee, Fitzgerald, Recherche, Southern Cross, Southern Jarrah Forest, Western Mallee.
IMCRA Regions
WA South Coast.
Local Government Areas (LGAs)
Albany, Coolgardie, Cranbrook, Dumbleyung, Dundas, Esperance, Gnowangerup, Jerramungup, Kent, Kondinin, Lake Grace, Plantagenet, Ravensthorpe, Yilgarn.