page_title: Melaleuca ringens
section_title: Description
hierarchical_section_title: Melaleuca ringens / Description
caption_attribution_description: English: Melaleuca ringens growing at Point d'Entrecasteaux (having survived a recent bushfire)
context_page_description: Melaleuca ringens is a plant in the myrtle family, Myrtaceae, and is endemic to the south-west of Western Australia. It shares some features with Melaleuca diosmifolia but has creamy yellow flower spikes and a lower, more spreading form.
context_section_description: Melaleuca ringens is a dense, spreading shrub which sometimes grows to about 3 m (10 ft) tall but usually much less and up 2 m (7 ft) wide. Its leaves are arranged alternately and are 4.5–8 mm (0.2–0.3 in) long and 1.8–3.5 mm (0.07–0.1 in) wide, glabrous except when very young, oval or lance-shaped, tapering to a point and with a stalk about  1 mm (0.04 in) long.
  The flowers are creamy-yellow coloured, arranged in spikes on the ends of branches which continue to grow after flowering or sometimes between the leaves. The spikes are 20–60 mm (0.8–2 in) long, about 20 mm (0.8 in) in diameter and contain 10 to 60 individual flowers. This species flowers prolifically but like those of some other melaleucas, the flowers have a sickly-sweet smell. The stamens are arranged in five bundles around the flower, each bundle containing 7 to 11 stamens. The flowering season is mainly spring and is followed by fruit which are bell-shaped, woody capsules about 5 mm (0.2 in) long and wide in clusters, the sepals remaining as teeth around the rim of the fruit.
caption: M. ringens leaves, flowers and fruit
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