Melaleuca leucadendra

TaxID: 164936

Basic Information

Melaleuca leucadendra

Cajeput, Weeping Paperbark

Melaleuca leucadendra, commonly known as weeping paperbark, long-leaved paperbark or white paperbark is a species of woody plant in the myrtle family Myrtaceae, and is widespread in northern Australia, New Guinea and parts of Indonesia. It grows as a tree to more than 20 m (70 ft) with a trunk covered with thick, white, papery bark and weeping thinner branches. It has a long flowering season, can flower at almost any time of the year and is often grown as a tree in parks and on roadsides. It was the first melaleuca to be described and was described from a specimen growing in Indonesia.

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Taxonomic Information

Eukaryota

Streptophyta

Magnoliopsida

Myrtales

Myrtaceae

Melaleuca

leucadendra

Unclassified

Photos (5 photos)

Melaleuca leucadendra
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Melaleuca leucadendra
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(c) Reiner Richter@BY-NC-SA
Melaleuca leucadendra
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(c) Reiner Richter@BY-NC-SA
Melaleuca leucadendra
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(c) Christopher Mitchell@BY-NC
Melaleuca leucadendra
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(c) Jen@BY-NC

Morphological Features

No morphological description available.

Host Plants (0 host plants)

Data sources: EPPO Global Database and relevant literature.

No host plants available.

Quarantine Status (2 records)

Data sources: IPPC website and national quarantine websites; verified by human review.

Country Status Year Added
French Polynesia Absent —
United States of America Quarantine pests —

Distribution (37 countries)

Data Sources: EPPO Global Database and GBIF.

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Present
0
Absent
0
Unknown/Other
Country Status State
Australia Present —
Benin Present —
Bangladesh Present —
Belize Present —
Brazil Present —
Cambodia Present —
China Present —
Côte d'Ivoire Present —
Cameroon Present —
Democratic Republic of the Congo Present —
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Distribution Map (Latitude and longitude coordinates sourced from GBIF.)

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Genomes (0 records)

Data source: NCBI.

No genome records available.

Transcriptomes (0 records)

Data source: NCBI.

No transcriptome records available.

DNA Barcodes (1 records)

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Data source: BOLD.

Process ID BIN Marker Length Country Date Lat/Lon Sequence
GBITS41422-21 - ITS 575 Australia - -14.1811, 132.194

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