Lophostemon MYRTACEAE 171 
orbicular, c. 4 mm long, glabrous. Staminal bundles Endemic to the Top End of the NT. In the DR on 
c. 3 mm long. Fruit 4-5 mm wide. Flowering and _ the margins of creeks and billabongs in which the 
fruiting: mainly July - Nov. Fig. 53 soils are moist, at least at depth, throughout the year. 
Eucalyptus 
I 
E. tectifica E. tetrodonta 
Lophostemon 
DA Leptospermum 
iS 
L. madidum 
E. umbrawarrensis supsp. Sativum L. grandiflorus L. lactifluus 
Fig. 53 
MELALEUCA L. 
Evergreen trees or shrubs. Leaves opposite or alternate; blades often parallel-nerved. Inflorescence a spike 
or a head, usually on a vegetative shoot which continues to grow; flowers 1-3 in the axils of bracts. Flowers 
perigynous; perianth 5-merous. Sepals imbricate, free, persistent. Petals free, deciduous. Stamens in 5 
bundles opposite the petals, anthers versatile. Ovary 3-locular, ovules many per locule. Fruit a capsule, 
enclosed in the enlarged woody hypanthium. Seeds minute. [Blake, 1968; Byrnes, 1984] Paperbarks 
About 150 species, the majority Australian endemics with a few outside Australia as far north as India; c. 20 
species in the NT, 7 in the DR. 
