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A rare Queensland melaleuca, a shrub or small tree up to about 10 m, known only from a fewer-than-1 km2 area near Ravenshoe. It grows in swampy, poorly drained soils near creeks, so it suits damp conditions.
Melaleuca lophocoracorum is a plant in the family Myrtaceae and is endemic to a small area in the Ravenshoe State Forest, near Ravenshoe in Queensland, Australia. It is a species of shrub or small tree with twisted leaves and spikes of cream-coloured flowers in summer.
This melaleuca is only known from an area of less than 1 km2 (0.4 mi2) near Ravenshoe, where there are thought to be no more than 600 individual plants. It grows in forest, generally in poorly-drained or swampy soil on rhyolite rock near creeks. There seems to be a correlation between the size of the plants and the depth of the soil in which they grow.
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Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Melaleuca lophocoracorum by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts and the care summary drawn from them are shared under the same licence.
The care summary was written by AI (Claude, Anthropic) from the sources on this page, with general growing knowledge where they are silent. Check before relying on it.
Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.
