page_title: Melaleuca gibbosa
section_title: Description
hierarchical_section_title: Melaleuca gibbosa / Description
caption_attribution_description: Taken in the Cambridge University Botanic Garden
context_page_description: Melaleuca gibbosa, commonly known as the slender honey-myrtle or small-leaved honey-myrtle is a plant in the myrtle family, Myrtaceae and is endemic to southern Australia. It is a dense, bushy shrub to about 2 metres with numerous slender, arching branches and oblong heads of mauve flower spikes in spring and sparsely throughout the year.
context_section_description: Melaleuca gibbosa is a medium-sized shrub, about 2 m (7 ft) tall and wide with egg-shaped leaves which are about 2–7 mm (0.08–0.3 in) long and 2–4 mm (0.08–0.2 in) wide. The leaves are sessile and arranged in crowded, alternating, opposite pairs along the stem (decussate).
  The flowers are mauve, in dense, cylindrical spikes about 15 mm (0.6 in) long, containing up to about ten pairs of flowers. The stamens are conspicuous, 3.5–5.5 mm (0.1–0.2 in) long and arranged in five bundles around each flower, each with between 5 and 25 stamens. Flowers appear mainly in November to December but often appear at other times of the year. The fruit are woody capsules, about 5 mm (0.2 in) across but wider at the base where they become embedded in the woody stem. The seeds are retained in the capsules until the plant, or that part of it, dies.
caption: Flowers of M. gibbosa.
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