''Melaleuca lazaridis'' is a plant in the myrtle
family
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,
Myrtaceae
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and is
endemic
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to the
Blackdown Tableland National Park in
Queensland
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. (Some Australian state
herbaria use the name ''Callistemon lazaridis'').
It is a shrub with dark green leaves and red flowers spikes tipped with yellow.
Description
''Melaleuca lazaridis'' is a shrub growing to tall with hard, fibrous bark. Its leaves are arranged alternately and are long, wide, flat, mostly narrow egg-shaped with a mid-vein and 9 to 29 branching veins.
The flowers are arranged in spikes on the ends of branches that continue to grow after flowering and also on the sides of the branches. The spikes are in diameter with 25 to 60 individual flowers. The petals are long and fall off as the flower ages. There are 48-59 stamens in each flower with red to deep pink
filaments and yellow anthers. Flowering occurs from June to September and is followed by fruit that are woody
capsules, long.
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Taxonomy and naming
''Melaleuca lazaridis'' was first formally described in 2006 by Lyndley Craven
Lyndley Alan Craven (3 September 1945 – 11 July 2014) was a botanist who became the Principal Research Scientist of the Australian National Herbarium.
Lyndley ("Lyn") Craven worked for the CSIRO plant taxonomy unit of the New Guinea Survey Gro ...
in ''Novon
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''.specific epithet
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(''lazaridis'') honours Michael Lazarides, an Australian botanical collector, agrostologist and co-collector of the type specimen
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.Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
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.
Distribution and habitat
This melaleuca only occurs in the Blackdown Tableland National Park, where it grows in a range of habitats but often near sandstone in open forest and along creeks.
References
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lazaridis Lazaridis may refer to:
* Kostas Lazaridis, Greek resistance fighter
* Prokopios Lazaridis, Greek Orthodox metropolitan bishop and saint
* Mike Lazaridis, founder of Research in Motion
* Nikolaos Lazaridis, footballer
* Stan Lazaridis, football ...
Flora of Queensland
Plants described in 2006
Taxa named by Lyndley Craven