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Nuytsia
The journal of the Western Australian Herbarium

Correction of type locality and flowering time for Melaleuca apostiba (Myrtaceae)
LEWINGTON, M.A.

Melaleuca apostiba K.J. Cowley was described from a specimen collected by R. Morland during a Lands & Surveys Department expedition to the Officer Basin in 1963. The holotype of M. apostiba has the collecting number M10, with the label recording the locality as ‘between Carnegie and Giles’ and the collection date as June 1963.