Given the question: Melaleuca nodosa - Melaleuca nodosa commonly known as the prickly-leaved paperbark is a shrub native to eastern Australia in New South Wales Queensland and South Australia.German botanist Joseph Gaertner described the prickly-leaved paperbark from material in the collection of Joseph Banks as Metrosideros nodosa in his De Fructibus et Seminibus Plantarum 1788. Given a choice of categories company, educational institution, artist, athlete, office holder, mean of transportation, building, natural place, village, animal, plant, album, film or written work, the text refers to which one?
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Plant