Species profile—Melaleuca leucadendra (broad-leaved tea-tree)
Classification
Plantae (plants) → Equisetopsida (land plants) → Myrtaceae → Melaleuca leucadendra (broad-leaved tea-tree)
Sighting data
Species details
- Kingdom
- Plantae (plants)
- Class
- Equisetopsida (land plants)
- Family
- Myrtaceae
- Scientific name
- Melaleuca leucadendra (L.) L.
- Common name
- broad-leaved tea-tree
- WildNet taxon ID
- 16689
- Alternate name(s)
- weeping teatree
white tea tree
swamp tea tree
river cadjeput
paperbark tree
paperbark tea tree
cajeput
cajaput tree
broad-leaved tea treee
big white paperbark
weeping tea-tree
weeping river tea-tree
river tea-tree
brown tea-tree
weeping tea tree
weeping paperbark
river tea tree
paperbark
long leaved paperbark
cajupet
cadjeput
butterscotch paperbark
brown tea tree
broad leaved tea tree
broad leaved paperbark
punk tree - Nature Conservation Act 1992 (NCA) status
- Least concern
- Conservation significant
- No
- Confidential
- No
- Wetland status
- Wetland Indicator Species
- Endemicity
- Native
- Pest status
- Nil
Other resources
Data source
This profile data is sourced from the QLD Wildlife Data API using the Get species by ID function used under CC-By 4.0.
https://apps.des.qld.gov.au/species/?op=getspeciesbyid&taxonid=16689.
This information is sourced from the WildNet database managed by the Queensland Department of Environment and Science.
