| Currently Accepted Name: | Melaleuca linariifolia Sm. |
| Locality: | USA. California. San Francisco Co.: Strybing Arboretum Bed 29, Golden Gate Park, San Francisco. |
| Description: | Small, single-trunked, subglobose tree; long claws of staminal bundles white, as were the numerous free filaments; anthers dull buffy-white; top of ovary white-pubescent; style white, shading to light pinkish purple apically; stigma purplish white; perianth incospicuous; petals, as noted with lens, sparingly punctate, greenish yellow shading to whitish on the thin, translucent margins; calyx lobes, similarly punctate, light green with whitish margins; calyx cup greenish, becoming dull rose distally; flower buds pale green; leaves stiffish, a fairly bright flat green above; beneath, the blade was very similar in color but the very narrow midrib was paler; leaves punctate beneath, the numerous, uniformly distributed dots a darker green and varying in size; on upper surface, the dots were smaller, being inconspicuous even under magnification, and tended to be more numerous toward margins and paralleled the margins and were more evident on the under side; branchlets gray-brown; bark tannish; especially below, it was extremely shreddy or shaggy, the numerous strips being thickish and spongy; basal parts of lowermost major branches were more or less horizontal to crookedly ascending; in peripheral and subperipheral areas the branching was intricate; diameter ca. 9 in. near ground; ca. 15 ft. tall and 10 ft. wide. |
| Notes: | CULTIVATED. Same plant as R.A.N. 4271, collected September 12, 1981. |