1	"Stamens free or mostly so (inserted in a ring on the hypanthium rim; rarely with the stamens in part free and in part irregularly fused in groups within a flower, or with the free stamens 5-grouped)"	2
1	"Stamens fused (inserted in five bundles on the hypanthim rim)"	82
2	"Staminal filaments white, cream, green or pink (includes creamy green, yellowish, but never shades of mauve or magenta)"	3
2	"Staminal filaments red, mauve or magenta (never creamy shades)"	37
3	"Calyx lobes herbaceous to or almost to the margin"	4
3	"Calyx lobes herbaceous in the proximal-central zone and scarious in a broad marginal band or scarious throughout"	25
4	"Inflorescence up to 30 mm wide"	5
4	"Inflorescence more than 30 mm wide"	12
5	"Leaves less than 3 mm wide"	6
5	"Leaves more than 3 mm wide"	8
6	"Cotyledons planoconvex; shrubs, typically in swampy shrubland or woodland in subalpine or montane regions"	"Melaleuca pityoides"
6	"Cotyledons obvolute; shrubs or small trees, typically along stream banks in tableland regions"	7
7	"Leaf blade with the indumentum composed of lanuginose and/or lanuginose-sericeous, or sometimes sericeous hairs"	"Melaleuca paludicola"
7	"Leaf blade with the indumentum composed of sericeous hairs"	"Melaleuca phratra"
8	"Inflorescence axis sericeous-pubescent to minutely sericeous-puberulous"	"Melaleuca salicina"
8	"Inflorescence axis pubescent to lanuginulose-pubescent"	9
9	"Branchlet indumentum composed of lanuginose hairs"	"Melaleuca quercina"
9	"Branchlet indumentum composed of pubescent, lanuginose-pubescent, sericeous or sericeous-pubescent hairs"	10
10	"Leaves 4-17 mm wide, 2.3-7.5 times as long as wide, the apex shortly acuminate to obtusely shortly acuminate"	"Melaleuca pallida"
10	"Leaves 1.2-8 mm wide, (5.9-)10-29.2 times as long as wide, the apex acute to obtuse or very shortly acuminate"	11
11	"Leaf blade with the indumentum composed of lanuginose and/or lanuginose-sericeous, or sometimes sericeous hairs"	"Melaleuca paludicola"
11	"Leaf blade with the indumentum composed of sericeous hairs"	"Melaleuca phratra"
12	"Stamens up to 15 mm long"	13
12	"Stamens more than 15 mm long"	18
13	"Inflorescence axis sericeous-pubescent to minutely sericeous-puberulous"	"Melaleuca salicina"
13	"Inflorescence axis pubescent to lanuginulose-pubescent"	14
14	"Leaf blade with the indumentum composed of pubescent to sericeous-pubescent hairs"	"Melaleuca virescens"
14	"Leaf blade with the indumentum composed of lanuginose and/or lanuginose-sericeous, or sometimes sericeous hairs"	15
15	"Branchlet indumentum composed of lanuginose hairs"	"Melaleuca quercina"
15	"Branchlet indumentum composed of pubescent, lanuginose-pubescent, sericeous or sericeous-pubescent hairs"	16
16	"Leaves 4-17 mm wide, 2.3-7.5 times as long as wide, the apex shortly acuminate to obtusely shortly acuminate"	"Melaleuca pallida"
16	"Leaves 1.2-8 mm wide, (5.9-)10-29.2 times as long as wide, the apex acute to obtuse or very shortly acuminate"	17
17	"Leaf blade with the indumentum composed of lanuginose and/or lanuginose-sericeous, or sometimes sericeous hairs"	"Melaleuca paludicola"
17	"Leaf blade with the indumentum composed of sericeous hairs"	"Melaleuca phratra"
18	"Leaves less than 3 mm wide"	19
18	"Leaves more than 3 mm wide"	20
19	"Leaf blade linear"	"Melaleuca linearis"
19	"Leaf blade narrowly elliptic,narrowly ovate or ovate"	"Melaleuca virescens"
20	"Hypanthium variously with lanuginose or lanuginulose hairs (lanuginose-pubescent, sericeous-lanuginulose, lanuginulose)"	21
20	"Hypanthium sericeous-pubescent, pubescent, sericeous or glabrous"	22
21	"Leaves 4-11 mm wide, the oil glands distinct; hypanthium 3.4-4.8 mm long"	"Melaleuca flavovirens"
21	"Leaves 9-40 mm wide, the oil glands usually obscure or very rarely distinct; hypanthium 1.8-3.4 mm long"	"Melaleuca nervosa"
22	"Stamens 23-31 mm long"	"Melaleuca pachyphylla"
22	"Stamens up to 24 mm long"	23
23	"Leaf blade indumentum with dense lanuginulose hairs overlaid with sparser longish sericeous-pubescent to pubescent hairs"	"Melaleuca nervosa"
23	"Leaf blade indumentum with sericeous or sericeous-pubescent hairs"	24
24	"Stamens 15-24 mm long; leaf blade with the oil glands sparse and obscure"	"Melaleuca pyramidalis"
24	"Stamens up to 16 mm long; leaf blade with the oil glands sparse or moderately dense, distinct or obscure"	"Melaleuca pallida"
25	"Stamens in part free and in part irregularly fused in groups within a flower (Occurring in central Australia, in gorges and rocky stream lines)"	"Melaleuca faucicola"
25	"Stamens inserted more or less evenly around the hypanthium rim, not irregularly fused in groups (Occurring in eastern Australia, whether or not associated with stream lines, etc)"	26
26	"Stamens fewer than 30 per flower"	27
26	"Stamens more than 30 per flower"	28
27	"Leaves 18-50 mm long, in transverse section transversely linear to sublunate"	"Melaleuca subulata"
27	"Leaves 44-143 mm long, intransverse section circular to transversely elliptic"	"Melaleuca orophila"
28	"Inflorescence less than 30 mm wide"	29
28	"Inflorescence more than 30 mm wide"	30
29	"Leaf blade narrowly ovate, very narrowly ovate (rarely narrowly elliptic to very narrowly elliptic)"	"Melaleuca shiressii"
29	"Leaf blade very narrowly elliptic, very narrowly obovate, linear-obovate, or linear-elliptic"	"Melaleuca paludicola"
30	"Inflorescence axis sericeous, minutely sericeous or sericeous-pubescent (rarely puberulous and the leaves then 2.9-4.6 times as long as wide)"	31
30	"Inflorescence axis pubescent to lanuginulose-pubescent"	33
31	"Leaf blade linear; leaves more than 30 times as long as wide"	"Melaleuca orophila"
31	"Leaf blade narrowly elliptic, elliptic, very narrowly elliptic, very narrowly ovate or narrowly obovate; leaves 3-15 times as long as wide"	32
32	"Stamens 9-15 mm long; stamens 57 -63 per flower"	"Melaleuca formosa"
32	"Stamens 15-24 mm long; stamens 35-42 per flower"	"Melaleuca pyramidalis"
33	"Hypanthium lanuginose-pubescent"	"Melaleuca flavovirens"
33	"Hypanthium sericeous, sericeous-pubescent or glabrous"	34
34	"Style 24-29 mm long"	"Melaleuca lazaridis"
34	"Style 10-23 mm long"	35
35	"Leaf blade with the indumentum composed of lanuginose and/or lanuginose-sericeous, or sometimes sericeous hairs; stamens 7-11 mm long"	"Melaleuca paludicola"
35	"Leaf blade with the indumentum composed of sericeous to pubescent hairs"	36
36	"Anthers purplish or maroon; leaves 4-14 mm wide, 3.1-8.8 times as long as wide"	"Melaleuca williamsii"
36	"Anthers yellow; leaves 2-5 mm wide, 7.5-14.8 times as long as wide"	"Melaleuca serpentina"
37	"Calyx lobes herbaceous to or almost to the margin"	38
37	"Calyx lobes herbaceous in the proximal-central zone and scarious in a broad to narrow marginal band or scarious throughout"	55
38	"Longest stamens up to 17 mm long (range 7-17 mm)"	39
38	"Longest stamens more than 17 mm long (range 12-31 mm)"	44
39	"Branchlet hairs dimorphic (with an overstorey of spreading-ascending to ascending or spreading more or less pubescent hairs and a lanuginulose-puberulous understorey, or with a sericeous overstorey and a lanuginulose-puberulous understorey)"	"Melaleuca recurva"
39	"Branchlet hairs monomorphic (the hairs sericeous, sericeous-pubescent, pubescent, lanuginose-pubescent or sericeous-lanuginulose)"	40
40	"Leaves 1.2-5 mm wide, 10.3-29.2 times as long as wide, the oil glands obscure"	41
40	"Leaves 2.5-28 mm wide, 2.3-14.8 times as long as wide, the oil glands usually distinct (if obscure, the leaves either less than 7.5 times as long as wide, or with the oil glands more numerous or only in the proximal region of the blade)"	42
41	"Stamens 7-11 mm long"	"Melaleuca phratra"
41	"Stamens 17-24 mm long"	"Melaleuca sabrina"
42	"Leaves with the oil glands usually in the proximal region of the blade only (sometimes adjacent to the midrib only), rarely distributed throughout the blade and then more numerous in the proximal region"	"Melaleuca hemisticta"
42	"Leaves with the oil glands distributed more or less evenly throughout the blade"	43
43	"Leaves 4-17 mm wide, 2.3-7.5 times as long as wide"	"Melaleuca pallida"
43	"Leaves 2.5-9 mm wide, 9.6-14.8 times as long as wide"	"Melaleuca montis-zamia"
44	"Anthers yellow (excluding pollen)"	45
44	"Anthers purple or reddish (excluding pollen)"	47
45	"Leaves 8-24 mm wide, up to 5 times as long as wide"	"Melaleuca pyramidalis"
45	"Leaves 0.7-3.5 mm wide, more than 8 times as long as wide"	46
46	"Leaf blade linear; hypanthium 3.4-4.5 mm long"	"Melaleuca linearis"
46	"Leaf blade very narrowly elliptic, very narrowly obovate, linear-elliptic or linear-obovate; hypanthium 2.6-3.5 mm long"	"Melaleuca sabrina"
47	"Leaf blades mostly linear, linear-elliptic or linear-obovate"	48
47	"Leaf blades mostly narrowly elliptic, narrowly obovate, elliptic or obovate"	50
48	"Leaves less than 3 mm wide"	"Melaleuca linearis"
48	"Leaves more than 3 mm wide"	49
49	"Hypanthium sericeous-lanuginulose; leaf blade with the indumentum composed of pubescent hairs"	"Melaleuca linearifolia"
49	"Hypanthium sericeous-pubescent; leaf blade with the indumentum composed of sericeous to sericeous-pubescent hairs"	"Melaleuca linearis"
50	"Hypanthium glabrous"	51
50	"Hypanthium hairy or glabrescent"	52
51	"Leaf blade with the indumentum composed of sericeous and lanuginose hairs"	"Melaleuca citrina"
51	"Leaf blade with the indumentum composed of velutinous hairs"	"Melaleuca montana"
52	"Leaf blades mostly abruptly tapering to the apex (the apex obtusely shortly acuminate, very shortly acuminate or sometimes acute)"	53
52	"Leaf blades mostly gradually tapering to the apex (the apex narrowly acute, acute or sometimes very shortly acuminate)"	54
53	"Leaves up to 8 times as long as wide, (7-)10-17 mm wide, the oil glands distinct or obscure"	"Melaleuca comboynensis"
53	"Leaves 4.5-25.3 times as long as wide, 3-10(-15) mm wide, the oil glands obscure"	"Melaleuca pachyphylla"
54	"Leaf blade margin finely but distinctly serrulate or at least subentire; stamens 20-32 per flower"	"Melaleuca flammea"
54	"Leaf blade margin entire or sometimes subentire; stamens 30-45 per flower"	"Melaleuca citrina"
55	"Anthers yellow (excluding pollen)"	56
55	"Anthers purple or reddish (excluding pollen)"	67
56	"Longest stamens up to 12 mm long (range 4.8-12 mm)"	57
56	"Longest stamens more than 12 mm long (range 10-27 mm)"	58
57	"Leaves 0.5-1.7 mm wide; inflorescence axis pubescent, the hairs spreading"	"Melaleuca brachyandra"
57	"Leaves 3.5-16 mm wide; inflorescence axis sericeous, the hairs appressed to spreading-ascending"	"Melaleuca faucicola"
58	"Longest stamens up to 17 mm long (range 10-17 mm)"	59
58	"Longest stamens more than 17 m long (range 15-27 mm)"	61
59	"Leaves with the oil glands usually in the proximal region of the blade only (sometimes adjacent to the midrib only), rarely distributed throughout the blade and then more numerous in the proximal region"	"Melaleuca hemisticta"
59	"Leaves with the oil glands distributed more or less evenly throughout the blade"	60
60	"Stamens 26-36 per flower; cotyledons apparently concavoconvex"	"Melaleuca recurva"
60	"Stamens 40-58 per flower; cotyledons obvolute"	"Melaleuca montis-zamia"
61	"Leaves up to 5 times as long as wide"	62
61	"Leaves more than 5 times as long as wide"	63
62	"Hypanthium 2.2-3.6 mm long; calyx lobes 1-2.3 mm long; leaves 8-24 mm wide"	"Melaleuca pyramidalis"
62	"Hypanthium 3.8-4.7 mm long; calyx lobes 2.1-3.8 mm long; leaves 2.5-8.5 mm wide"	"Melaleuca rugulosa"
63	"Inflorescence axis sericeous to sericeous-pubescent, the hairs appressed to spreading-ascending"	"Melaleuca chisholmii"
63	"Inflorescence axis pubescent or lanuginulose-pubescent, the hairs spreading"	64
64	"Leaves up to 3.5 mm wide and calyx lobes glabrous or lanuginulose"	65
64	"Leaves more than 4 mm wide and calyx lobes sericeous or sericeous-pubescent"	66
65	"Hypanthium glabrous; stamens 25-39 per flower"	"Melaleuca pearsonii"
65	"Hypanthium sericeous-pubescent; stamens 49-73 per flower"	"Melaleuca sabrina"
66	"Calyx lobes 1.4-2 mm long; leaf blade apex acute to narrowly acute"	"Melaleuca lazaridis"
66	"Calyx lobes 2.1-3.8 mm long; leaf blade apex shortly acuminate to obtusely shortly acuminate"	"Melaleuca rugulosa"
67	"Hypanthium glabrous"	68
67	"Hypanthium hairy or glabrescent"	73
68	"Leaves less than 4 mm wide"	69
68	"Leaves 4 mm or more wide"	71
69	"Leaf blade linear (0.8-1.7 mm wide)"	"Melaleuca orophila"
69	"Leaf blade linear-obovate, linear-elliptic, narrowly obovate or narrowly elliptic"	70
70	"Stamens 16-32 per flower"	"Melaleuca subulata"
70	"Stamens 39-56 per flower"	"Melaleuca phoenicea"
71	"Leaf blade with the oil glands obscure"	"Melaleuca polandii"
71	"Leaf blade with the oil glands distinct"	72
72	"Leaf blade narrowly elliptic or narrowly obovate, the apex narrowly acute or acute; cotyledons obvolute"	"Melaleuca citrina"
72	"Leaf blade linear-obovate or linear-elliptic, the apex shortly acuminate; cotyledons concavoconvex"	"Melaleuca phoenicea"
73	"Leaves less than 4 mm wide"	74
73	"Leaves 4 mm or more wide"	78
74	"Hypanthium pubescent (Leaf blade linear, 0.8-1.7 mm wide)"	"Melaleuca orophila"
74	"Hypanthium sericeous or sericeous-pubescent"	75
75	"Leaf blade narrowly obovate"	"Melaleuca williamsii"
75	"Leaf blade linear, linear-elliptic or linear-obovate (sometimes narrowly obovate or narrowly elliptic)"	76
76	"Stamens 39-56 per flower"	"Melaleuca phoenicea"
76	"Stamens 16-42 per flower"	77
77	"Hypanthium 2.1-3.9 mm long"	"Melaleuca subulata"
77	"Hypanthium 3.8-6 mm long"	"Melaleuca linearis"
78	"Leaf blade usually linear-elliptic, linear-obovate, very narrowly elliptic, or sometimes narrowly elliptic, narrowly obovate or linear-ovate"	79
78	"Leaf blade usually narrowly elliptic, narrowly obovate, elliptic, obovate, or sometimes very narrowly elliptic or very narrowly obovate"	81
79	"Stamens 39-56 per flower (Hypanthium sericeous-pubescent or glabrous)"	"Melaleuca phoenicea"
79	"Stamens 16-42 per flower"	80
80	"Hypanthium and calyx lobe blade sericeous-pubescent"	"Melaleuca linearis"
80	"Hypanthium and calyx lobe blade sericeous-lanuginulose"	"Melaleuca linearifolia"
81	"Longest stamens up to 19 mm long (range 6.5-19 mm); inflorescence 25-45 mm wide"	"Melaleuca williamsii"
81	"Longest stamens up to 25 mm long (range 17-25 mm); inflorescence 45-70 mm wide"	"Melaleuca citrina"
82	"Leaves opposite and decussate or ternate"	83
82	"Leaves spiral"	154
83	"Leaves opposite and decussate"	84
83	"Leaves ternate"	134
84	"Leaves peltate"	85
84	"Leaves not peltate"	94
85	"Staminal filaments less than 12 mm long"	86
85	"Staminal filaments more than 12 mm long"	93
86	"Flowers in monads or dyads"	87
86	"Flowers in triads"	91
87	"Flowers in dyads"	"Melaleuca minutifolia"
87	"Flowers in monads"	88
88	"Inflorescence an interstitial spike or group of flowers on a leafy branchlet, or the inflorescence terminating a pre-existing axis (growth often continuing from the inflorescence axis after anthesis)"	89
88	"Inflorescence a lateral cluster of one or more monads (often the plant is ramiflorous; growth never continues from the inflorescence axis)"	90
89	"Leaves appressed, the blade apex acute; stamens 20-35 per bundle"	"Melaleuca foliolosa"
89	"Leaves ascending (the proximal half being appressed as a result of the peltate condition), the blade apex acuminate (rarely approaching acute); stamens 6-14 per bundle"	"Melaleuca monantha"
90	"Leaf blade in transverse section lunate or broadly v-shaped; calyx lobes 1.5-2 mm long"	"Melaleuca agathosmoides"
90	"Leaf blade in transverse section semicircular, transversely elliptic or subcircular; calyx lobes 0.7-0.9 mm long"	"Melaleuca sculponeata"
91	"Leaves amplexicaul, spreading-ascending to spreading, the blade in transverse section depressed angular-obovate, strongly depressed obtriangular, depressed obovate or shallowly lunate (ovules 8-10 per locule)"	"Melaleuca cucullata"
91	"Leaves not amplexicaul, ascending to spreading, the blade in transverse section lunate, sublunate (evenly thick and shallowly curved), strongly sublunate-curved, subreniform, transversely semielliptic or depressed obovate;"	92
92	"Inflorescence an interstitial spike or head (at anthesis it may be pseudoterminal); leaves incurved to straight in lateral view, 0.8-1.5 mm wide; ovules 15-20 per locule"	"Melaleuca quadrifaria"
92	"Inflorescence a lateral spike (among or below the leaves); leaves recurved to straight, 1.4-3.8 mm wide; ovules 7-13 per locule"	"Melaleuca adnata"
93	"Leaf blade subulate to linear-elliptic, 8-14 times as long as wide"	"Melaleuca eximia"
93	"Leaf blade narrowly ovate, 2.7-3.8 times as long as wide"	"Melaleuca penicula"
93	"Leaf blade elliptic to ovate, 1.5-2.2 times as long as wide"	"Melaleuca coccinea"
94	"Stamens dimorphic"	95
94	"Stamens monomorphic"	96
95	"Stamens 30-60 per bundle, the filaments 11.5-13 mm long"	"Melaleuca thymifolia"
95	"Stamens 4-25 per bundle, the filaments 5.5-8.2 mm long (when straightened)"	"Melaleuca violacea"
96	"Staminal filaments less than 10 mm long"	97
96	"Staminal filaments more than 10 mm long"	127
97	"Flowers in monads (very rarely, and then in part within the inflorescence, in dyads)"	98
97	"Flowers in triads (sometimes proximal and/or distal flowers may be in monads)"	123
98	"Fruiting hypanthium distinctly embedded in the rachis or stem"	99
98	"Fruiting hypanthium not distinctly embedded in the rachis or stem (however the rachis may be compressed by the fruit)"	101
99	"Leaves with parallel-pinnate venation (blade elliptic, 5-10.4 mm long, 2.4-5.5 mm wide, 1.7-2.8 times as long as wide)"	"Melaleuca platycalyx"
99	"Leaves with parallel venation"	100
100	"Leaf blade very narrowly obovate, very narrowly elliptic, narrowly obovate, or narrowly elliptic, 4.5-15 mm long, 2.9-11.6 times as long as wide"	"Melaleuca decussata"
100	"Leaf blade broadly obovate, obovate, broadly elliptic, elliptic, or sometimes broadly ovate, 1.5-6 mm long, 1-2.8 times as long as wide"	"Melaleuca gibbosa"
101	"Inflorescence a lateral cluster among or below the leaves (growth from the apex of the inflorescence may continue after flowering)"	102
101	"Inflorescence an interstitial spike or cluster of flowers on a leafy branchlet, or the inflorescence terminating a pre-existing axis (growth usually continues from the apex of the inflorescence after flowering; sometimes spikes may be inserted laterally, i.e. below the leaves or in the distal leaf axils of a branchlet, or both terminal and lateral inflorescences may be present)"	110
102	"Hypanthium glabrous"	103
102	"Hypanthium hairy or glabrescent"	108
103	"Stamens 2-7 per bundle"	104
103	"Stamens 8-29 per bundle"	105
104	"Leaf blade very narrowly elliptic to narrowly elliptic; staminal filaments 2.2-2.5 mm long"	"Melaleuca pauciflora"
104	"Leaf blade broadly ovate; staminal filaments 5.8-7 mm long"	"Melaleuca pritzelii"
105	"Flowers bracteolate"	"Melaleuca dempta"
105	"Flowers ebracteolate"	106
106	"Staminal filaments pink, mauve or purple"	"Melaleuca basicephala"
106	"Staminal filaments white, cream or yellow"	107
107	"Leaves appressed, ascending, or sometimes speading-ascending to spreading, the blade in transverse section transversely linear, the oil glands usually obscure (rarely distinct)"	"Melaleuca oxyphylla"
107	"Leaves ascending to spreading, the blade in transverse section lunate, or conduplicate-involute (rarely transversely linear), the oil glands usually distinct (sometimes obscure)"	"Melaleuca acuminata"
108	"Leaves 5-7-veined; stamens 22-25 per bundle"	"Melaleuca calycina"
108	"Leaves 3-veined; stamens 6-15 per bundle"	109
109	"Staminal filaments 9-12 mm long, the bundle claw 0.4-0.6 times as long as the filaments, filaments pink, deep pink or purplish-pink"	"Melaleuca wilsonii"
109	"Staminal filaments 6-6.5 mm long, the bundle claw 0.2 times as long as the filaments, filaments white"	"Melaleuca ordinifolia"
110	"Stamens 2-4 per bundle"	"Melaleuca pritzelii"
110	"Stamens more than 6 per bundle"	111
111	"Stamens 6-29 per bundle"	112
111	"Stamens 32-105 per bundle"	122
112	"Hypanthium glabrous"	113
112	"Hypanthium hairy or glabrescent"	119
113	"Calyx lobes hairy on the abaxial surface"	"Melaleuca sciotostyla"
113	"Calyx lobes glabrous on the abaxial surface"	114
114	"Bract subtending each flower (i.e. monad) absent at anthesis (leaf blade apex narrowly acuminate or narrowly acute, never rounded to obtuse; 1-12 monads per inflorescence)"	"Melaleuca adenostyla"
114	"Bract subtending each flower (i.e. monad) present at anthesis (leaf blade apex never narrowly acuminate or narrowly acute; 1-5 monads per inflorescence)"	115
115	"Leaves 1.1-1.9 times as long as wide, 2.5-6.2 mm wide"	"Melaleuca dempta"
115	"Leaves 1.9-6.7 times as long as wide, 0.7-2.2 mm wide"	116
116	"Inflorescence axis lanuginulose, sometimes lanuginulose-puberulous to puberulous"	117
116	"Inflorescence axis pubescent or puberulous"	118
117	"Bracts subtending the inflorescence often numerous and often forming four distinct longitudinal series; leaves 2.6-9 mm long"	"Melaleuca halmaturorum"
117	"Bracts subtending the inflorescence often few and rarely forming four distinct longitudinal series; leaves 1.8-3.7 mm long"	"Melaleuca subalaris"
118	"Calyx lobes herbaceous to or almost to the margin (the scarious marginal band up to 0.1 mm wide)"	"Melaleuca cuticularis"
118	"Calyx lobes herbaceous in the proximal-central region with the scarious marginal band 0.2-0.3 mm wide"	"Melaleuca sparsiflora"
119	"Leaf blade in transverse section ""bird-winged"" or transversely linear"	120
119	"Leaf blade in transverse section lunate, sublunate, transversely semielliptic, or semicircular (rarely subcircular or depressed obovate)"	121
120	"Leaf blade in transverse section ""bird-winged"""	"Melaleuca biconvexa"
120	"Leaf blade in transverse section transversely linear"	"Melaleuca cheelii"
121	"Leaf blade ovate or broadly ovate (rarely narrowly ovate), with early deciduous pubescent hairs; leaves 5-12 mm long, 1.2-2.6 times as long as wide"	"Melaleuca calycina"
121	"Leaf blade elliptic to very narrowly elliptic, narrowly obovate or very narrowly ovate (rarely linear-elliptic or linear-ovate), with often early deciduous hairs at least some of which are lanuginulose; leaves 3-10.6 mm long, 2.2-6.6 times as long as wide"	"Melaleuca haplantha"
122	"Ovules 85-120 per locule; fruit with the valves inserted through to level with the orifice, the capsule not deciduous"	"Melaleuca linariifolia"
122	"Ovules 25-45 per locule; fruit with the valves exserted and at length with the capsule deciduous leaving the hypanthium as an empty bowl-like structure"	"Melaleuca trichostachya"
123	"Leaf blade in transverse section transversely linear (excluding effects of leaf twisting)"	124
123	"Leaf blade in transverse section otherwise (lunate, shallowly lunate, transversely semielliptic, semicircular, depressed obovate, etc)"	125
124	"Leaves distinctly twisted, 3-veined (very rarely 5-veined)"	"Melaleuca tortifolia"
124	"Leaves not twisted, 5-7-veined"	"Melaleuca squarrosa"
125	"Branchlets with bud scales (leaf blade narrowly elliptic, linear-elliptic, narrowly obovate, or narrowly oblong)"	"Melaleuca eleuterostachya"
125	"Branchlets without bud scales (if present, then only subtending axillary growth flushes, i.e. not subtending growth flushes that continue a pre-existing axis)"	126
126	"Leaf blade linear-elliptic, or very narrowly elliptic; leaves 3-13.5 mm long"	"Melaleuca densispicata"
126	"Leaf blade ovate-oblong, oblong, narrowly ovate, or ovate; leaves 2.5-6.7 mm long"	"Melaleuca quadrifaria"
127	"Stamens with the bundle claw 3.5 mm long or less"	"Melaleuca sparsiflora"
127	"Stamens with the bundle claw 4.5 mm long or more"	128
128	"Stamens with the free portion of the filaments diverging from the apex or distal 1/4 of the bundle claw"	129
128	"Stamens with the free portion of the filaments diverging from the distal half or more of the bundle claw"	131
129	"Inflorescence is a cluster of 1-6 monads, always lateral and never growing on after anthesis"	"Melaleuca wilsonii"
129	"Inflorescence is a spike of 10-60 monads, usually lateral and often growing on after anthesis"	130
130	"Hypanthium glabrous"	"Melaleuca hypericifolia"
130	"Hypanthium densely hairy"	"Melaleuca elliptica"
131	"Flowering hypanthium compressed at the base and when detached leaving an oblong, narrowly elliptic, or narrowly ovate scar on the inflorescence axis"	132
131	"Flowering hypanthium not compressed at the base and when detached leaving a circular, broadly elliptic or ovate scar on the inflorescence axis"	133
132	"Stamens 30-90 per bundle, the filaments (incl. the claw) typically mauve or pink; fruit without sepaline teeth"	"Melaleuca radula"
132	"Stamens 22-37 per bundle, , the filaments (incl. the claw) typically red; fruit with or without sepaline teeth"	"Melaleuca fulgens"
133	"Ovules 85-120 per locule; fruit with the valves inserted or level with the orifice, the capsule not deciduous"	"Melaleuca linariifolia"
133	"Ovules 25-45 per locule; fruit with the valves exserted, at length with the capsule deciduous leaving the hypanthium as an empty bowl-like structure"	"Melaleuca trichostachya"
134	"Leaves without venation"	"Melaleuca micromera"
134	"Leaves with venation (at least a midrib present)"	135
135	"Stamens 19-30 per bundle"	"Melaleuca lecanantha"
135	"Stamens 2-16 per bundle"	136
136	"Inflorescence a lateral cluster of flowers"	137
136	"Inflorescence a spike or head of flowers (usually terminating a pre-existing shoot but sometimes lateral among or below the leaves)"	139
137	"Inflorescence axis hairy (staminal filaments 5.8-7 mm long, the stamens 2-4 per bundle)"	"Melaleuca pritzelii"
137	"Inflorescence axis glabrous"	138
138	"Staminal filaments 2.2-2.5 mm long, the stamens 2-7 per bundle"	"Melaleuca pauciflora"
138	"Staminal filaments 5.2-6.3 mm long, the stamens 10-12 per bundle"	"Melaleuca brevifolia"
139	"Sepaline teeth, or calyx lobes on fruit, erect to inflexed"	140
139	"Sepaline teeth spreading to spreading-ascending"	152
140	"Hypanthium hairy (distinctly so)"	141
140	"Hypanthium glabrous (or effectively so, rarely a few hairs present)"	144
141	"Leaf blade ovate, broadly ovate, elliptic, obovate, broadly obovate, subcircular, narrowly ovate, or oblong; leaves 1-4.6 times as long as wide"	"Melaleuca densa"
141	"Leaf blade very narrowly elliptic, very narrowly ovate, linear-elliptic, linear-ovate, linear, or very narrowly obovate, or elliptic; leaves 1.7-24.3 times as long as wide"	142
142	"Leaf blade with the oil glands scattered (New South Wales, Victoria, Tasmania)"	"Melaleuca ericifolia"
142	"Leaf blade with the oil glands in rows or more or less in rows (southwest Western Australia)"	143
143	"Leaf blade with the oil glands distinct"	"Melaleuca incana"
143	"Leaf blade with the oil glands obscure"	"Melaleuca viminea"
144	"Leaf blade with the oil glands scattered"	145
144	"Leaf blade with the oil glands in rows or more or less in rows"	146
145	"Leaf blade ovate, narrowly ovate, ovate-oblong, or narrowly triangular; leaves 1.6-3.4 times as long as wide"	"Melaleuca blaeriifolia"
145	"Leaf blade very narrowly elliptic,very narrowly ovate, linear-elliptic, linear-ovate, or linear; leaves 6-24.3 times as long as wide"	"Melaleuca ericifolia"
146	"Calyx lobes replaced by sepaline teeth (at length these may weather away)"	147
146	"Calyx lobes weathering away or immerged in fruiting hypanthium rim, not replaced by sepaline teeth"	151
147	"Leaf blade in lateral view incurved"	148
147	"Leaf blade in lateral view straight to recurved"	149
148	"Stamens 3-5 per bundle"	"Melaleuca araucarioides"
148	"Stamens 7-11 per bundle"	"Melaleuca phoidophylla"
149	"Petals lacking oil glands"	"Melaleuca phoidophylla"
149	"Petals with oil glands"	150
150	"Leaf blade in lateral view straight or slightly recurved; style 5.6-6 mm long"	"Melaleuca bracteosa"
150	"Leaf blade usually strongly recurved; style 7-12 mm long"	"Melaleuca viminea"
151	"Staminal filaments 2.3-4.2 mm long; style 4.5-5 mm long"	"Melaleuca parvistaminea"
151	"Staminal filaments 4.2-8.5 mm long; style 6-7 mm long"	"Melaleuca pustulata"
152	"Stamens with the free part of the filaments inserted on the distal one- to three quarters of the bundle claw (rarely at the apex only)"	"Melaleuca incana"
152	"Stamens with the free part of the filaments inserted at the apex of the bundle claw"	153
153	"Staminal filaments 1.8-5 mm long"	"Melaleuca araucarioides"
153	"Staminal filaments 6.5-7.7 mm long"	"Melaleuca blaeriifolia"
154	"Leaves not peltate"	155
154	"Leaves peltate"	557
155	"Flowers in spikes"	156
155	"Flowers not in spikes (in heads or lateral clusters, or inflorescence few- to 1-flowered)"	311
156	"Flowers in monads or dyads (consistently so within the inflorescence)"	157
156	"Flowers in triads (usually consistently so within an inflorescence, sometimes in part in monads)"	239
157	"Stamens dimorphic"	"Melaleuca pulchella"
157	"Stamens monomorphic"	158
158	"Hypanthium glabrous or effectively so"	159
158	"Hypanthium hairy or glabrescent"	203
159	"Staminal filaments up to 12 mm long"	160
159	"Staminal filaments more than 12 mm long"	194
160	"Leaf blade with the oil glands in rows or more or less so"	161
160	"Leaf blade with the oil glands scattered"	173
161	"Stamens with the bundle claw up to 0.2 times the length of the stamens"	162
161	"Stamens with the bundle claw more than 0.3 times the length of the stamens"	165
162	"Fruit with sepaline teeth; hypanthium 2-3 mm long"	"Melaleuca torquata"
162	"Fruit without sepaline teeth; hypanthium 1-2.2 mm long"	163
163	"Stamens 15-22 per bundle"	"Melaleuca xerophila"
163	"Stamens 3-9 per bundle"	164
164	"Staminal filaments 2.3-4.2 mm long; style 4.5-5 mm long"	"Melaleuca parvistaminea"
164	"Staminal filaments 4.2-8.5 mm long; style 6-7 mm long"	"Melaleuca pustulata"
165	"Style hooked or distinctly flexuous (never curved or gently flexuous)"	"Melaleuca xerophila"
165	"Style straight or more or less so"	166
166	"Inflorescence axis puberulous to pubescent"	167
166	"Inflorescence axis glabrous or if hairy with at least some of the hairs lanuginulose or lanuginose (lanuginulose, lanuginose, lanuginulose-puberulous, or lanuginose-pubescent)"	168
167	"Fruit with or without sepaline teeth, if present then the teeth erect; calyx lobes 0.5-1 mm long; petals 1.2-2.6 mm long"	"Melaleuca viminea"
167	"Fruit with sepaline teeth, the teeth spreading to spreading-ascending; calyx lobes 1-1.5 mm long; petals 2.7-3 mm long"	"Melaleuca pomphostoma"
168	"Bract subtending each monad present at anthesis"	"Melaleuca bracteosa"
168	"Bract subtending each monad absent at anthesis"	169
169	"Leaf blade with only 1 well developed vein"	170
169	"Leaf blade with 3 well developed veins (midvein and 2 parallel minor veins)"	172
170	"Leaf apex aristate or acuminate, straight to recurved (leaf blade in transverse section depressed obovate)"	"Melaleuca hamulosa"
170	"Leaf apex not aristate, apex obtusely shortly acuminate, acute, obtuse, or acuminate, incurved to straight"	171
171	"Leaf blade in transverse section transversely elliptic, flattened transversely semielliptic, the blade straight; ovules c. 80-90 per locule"	"Melaleuca diosmatifolia"
171	"Leaf blade in transverse section subcircular, circular, depressed obovate, or transversely elliptic, the blade falcate to straight; ovules c. 35-60 per locule"	"Melaleuca glaberrima"
172	"Leaf blade 0.9-1.3 mm wide; leaves 11-33 times as long as wide; staminal filaments cream or cream to yellow"	"Melaleuca armillaris"
172	"Leaf blade 1.5-4.5 mm wide; 2.3-8.3 times as long as wide; staminal filaments mauve, pink or purple"	"Melaleuca laxiflora"
173	"Leaf blade with 1-3 parallel veins"	174
173	"Leaf blade with 4 or more parallel veins"	191
174	"Stamens with the bundle claw up to 0.3 times as long as the filaments"	175
174	"Stamens with the bundle claw 0.4-0.7 times as long as the filaments"	179
175	"Hypanthium 1-1.8 mm long"	176
175	"Hypanthium 2-3.2 mm long"	177
176	"Leaves up to 3.6 times as long as wide, 1.8-6.6 mm long"	"Melaleuca blaeriifolia"
176	"Leaves more than 6 times as long as wide, 5-18 mm long"	"Melaleuca ericifolia"
177	"Calyx lobes replaced by sepaline teeth in fruit"	"Melaleuca torquata"
177	"Calyx lobes not replaced by sepaline teeth"	178
178	"Leaf apex narrowly acute to acute; staminal filaments purple, mauve or pink, rarely cream to white"	"Melaleuca squamea"
178	"Leaf apex acuminate to narrowly acuminate; staminal filaments pallid (recorded as lemon-yellow)"	"Melaleuca leiocarpa"
179	"Stamens 4-30 per bundle"	180
179	"Stamens 31-105 per bundle"	190
180	"Leaves usually more than 10 times as long as wide and up to 1.5 mm wide"	181
180	"Leaves always less than 8.5 times as long as wide and usually more than 1.5 mm wide"	186
181	"Stamens 4-10 per bundle"	"Melaleuca microphylla"
181	"Stamens 11 or more per bundle"	182
182	"Hypanthium 1-1.2 mm long"	"Melaleuca armillaris"
182	"Hypanthium 1.5-3.2 mm long"	183
183	"Staminal filaments mauve"	"Melaleuca ctenoides"
183	"Staminal filaments white, cream or lemon-yellow"	184
184	"Leaf hairs sericeous to sericeous-pubescent"	"Melaleuca leiocarpa"
184	"Leaf hairs lanuginulose to lanuginulose-puberulous, rarely with some longer pubescent hairs"	185
185	"Leaf blade usually very narrowly elliptic, in transverse section sublunate or transversely linear (eastern regions of Queensland and New South Wales)"	"Melaleuca decora"
185	"Leaf blade usually linear, in transverse section depressed obovate, transversely semielliptic, or circular (southwestern Western Australia)"	"Melaleuca rhaphiophylla"
186	"Calyx lobes replaced by sepaline teeth in fruit"	187
186	"Calyx lobes not replaced by sepaline teeth in fruit (lobes either deciduous or merely weathering away)"	189
187	"Staminal filaments yellow or yellow-green"	"Melaleuca eurystoma"
187	"Staminal filaments mauve"	188
188	"Leaf blade in lateral view straight; branchlets glabrescent, the hairs ephemeral, lanuginulose"	"Melaleuca depauperata"
188	"Leaf blade in lateral view straight to recurved; branchlets glabrous to glabrescent, the hairs puberulous"	"Melaleuca camptoclada"
189	"Leaf blade with the apex narrowly acute to acute; bark papery"	"Melaleuca decora"
189	"Leaf blade with the apex acuminate to narrowly acuminate; bark hard"	"Melaleuca leiocarpa"
190	"Stamens with the bundle claw 2.5-4.8 mm long; hypanthium 1.5-2.5 mm long; fruit with inserted valves"	"Melaleuca decora"
190	"Stamens with the bundle claw 5.5-8.2 mm long; hypanthium 1.2-1.5 mm long; fruit with exserted valves"	"Melaleuca trichostachya"
191	"Leaf blade in transverse section lunate; stamens 7-15 per bundle, the bundle claw 0.5-0.6 times as long as the filaments"	"Melaleuca eurystoma"
191	"Leaf blade in transverse section transversely linear to sublunate"	192
192	"Staminal filaments purple, mauve or pink, rarely cream to white (Leaf blade marrowly acute, the blade in lateral view straight to incurved)"	"Melaleuca squamea"
192	"Staminal filaments white or creamy-yellow"	193
193	"Leaves 4.5-8 mm long; ovules 20-30 per locule"	"Melaleuca ringens"
193	"Leaves 10-55 mm long; ovules c. 110-135 per locule"	"Melaleuca groveana"
194	"Leaf blade in transverse section transversely linear"	195
194	"Leaf blade in transverse section otherwise (depressed obovate, transversely semielliptic, circular, lunate, shallowly lunate, transversely narrowly elliptic, sublunate or obsublunate)"	198
195	"Petals up to 2.6 mm long; staminal filaments cream or creamy-yellow"	"Melaleuca viminea"
195	"Petals more than 3 mm long; staminal filaments green or red"	196
196	"Staminal filaments green"	"Melaleuca diosmifolia"
196	"Staminal filaments red"	197
197	"Leaves 9-28 mm long"	"Melaleuca macronychia"
197	"Leaves (25-)30-138 mm long"	"Melaleuca viminalis"
198	"Stamens more than 30 per bundle"	"Melaleuca alternifolia"
198	"Stamens up to 30 per bundle"	199
199	"Staminal filaments red"	200
199	"Staminal filaments pallid (white, creamy lemon, yellow green, pink or mauve)"	201
200	"Leaves 6.5-24.5 mm long, 0.9-1.5 mm wide"	"Melaleuca lateritia"
200	"Leaves (25-)30-138 mm long, 3-27 mm wide"	"Melaleuca viminalis"
201	"Leaf blade elliptic, broadly elliptic, or broadly obovate"	"Melaleuca eurystoma"
201	"Leaf blade otherwise (linear, subfalcate to falcate, linear-obovate, or linear-elliptic)"	202
202	"Staminal filaments pink or mauve (fading to white); inflorescence axis usually glabrous (rarely sparsely lanuginulose-puberulous)"	"Melaleuca glaberrima"
202	"Staminal filaments white, cream or lemon; inflorescence axis hairy (puberulous or lanuginulose or combinations thereof)"	"Melaleuca rhaphiophylla"
203	"Staminal filaments up to 12 mm long"	204
203	"Staminal filaments more than 12 mm long"	233
204	"Leaf blade with the oil glands in rows or more or less so"	205
204	"Leaf blade with the oil glands scattered"	223
205	"Stamens with the bundle claw 0.1-0.4 times as as long as the filaments"	206
205	"Stamens with the bundle claw 0.5-0.6 times as as long as the filaments"	214
206	"Ovary adnate to the hypanthium for the proximal one quarter"	207
206	"Ovary adnate to the hypanthium for the proximal one half to three quarters"	210
207	"Stamens 3-6 per bundle"	"Melaleuca densa"
207	"Stamens 9-22 per bundle"	208
208	"Style 4-5.5 mm long; petals 1.5-2.2 mm long"	"Melaleuca sheathiana"
208	"Style 7.5-12 mm long; petals 2.3-3 mm long"	209
209	"Calyx lobes 1-1.5 mm long; leaves 1.3-2.3 mm wide, 2-3.3 times as long as wide"	"Melaleuca linguiformis"
209	"Calyx lobes 1.6-2.4 mm long; leaves 0.9-1.3 mm wide, 1.7-7.7 times as long as wide"	"Melaleuca teuthidoides"
210	"Petals 1.2-2 mm long (rarely to 2.5 mm long)"	"Melaleuca viminea"
210	"Petals 2.2-4.5 mm long"	211
211	"Leaf blade in transverse section transversely linear to sublunate"	212
211	"Leaf blade in transverse section depressed obovate or flattened transversely semielliptic to semicircular"	213
212	"Leaves 4-15 mm long, 2.5-7.2 times as long as wide; inflorescence a spike of monads and/or triads; branchlet and leaf indumentum composed of lanuginulose, sometimes to lanuginulose-puberulous, hairs (occasionally with some longer pubescent hairs)"	"Melaleuca sieberi"
212	"Leaves 10-25b mm long, 6-20 times as long as wide; inflorescence a short spike or head of monads (never with triads); branchlet and leaf indumentum composed of sericeous to pubescent hairs"	"Melaleuca capitata"
213	"Staminal filaments purple, mauve or pink"	"Melaleuca subfalcata"
213	"Staminal filaments white to cream"	"Melaleuca linguiformis"
214	"Ovary adnate to the hypanthium for the proximal one quarter"	215
214	"Ovary adnate to the hypanthium for the proximal one half to three quarters"	218
215	"Stamens 3-6 per bundle"	216
215	"Stamens 15-28 per bundle"	217
216	"Calyx lobes 0.6-0.8 mm long; petals not clawed"	"Melaleuca densa"
216	"Calyx lobes 1-1.5 mm long; petals distinctly clawed"	"Melaleuca kunzeoides"
217	"Calyx lobes 0.5-0.8 mm long; petals 1.8-2.8 mm long, obscurely to distinctly clawed"	"Melaleuca diosmatifolia"
217	"Calyx lobes 0.9-1.7 mm long; petals 1.8-1.9 mm long, not clawed"	"Melaleuca bracteata"
218	"Staminal filaments white to cream or pale yellow"	219
218	"Staminal filaments pink, mauve or purplish"	221
219	"Inflorescence axis lanuginulose to lanuginose"	"Melaleuca strobophylla"
219	"Inflorescence axis puberulous to pubescent"	220
220	"Stamens 3-15 per bundle; leaves untwisted; floral bract absent or present"	"Melaleuca viminea"
220	"Stamens 11-33 per bundle; leaves twisted to untwisted (twist is distinct, occurring at the blade base/petiole region); floral bract present"	"Melaleuca sieberi"
221	"Leaf blade ovate or elliptic (sometimes very narrowly to narrowly ovate)"	"Melaleuca spicigera"
221	"Leaf blade otherwise (narrowly obovate, very narrowly obovate, narrowly elliptic, very narrowly elliptic, linear, linear-elliptic, often subfalcate)"	222
222	"Petals hairy (more or less glabrescent, not densely hairy); hypanthium 1.5-2 mm long"	"Melaleuca subfalcata"
222	"Petals glabrous; hypanthium 2-2.9 mm long"	"Melaleuca laxiflora"
223	"Staminal filaments 2.2-3.5 mm long (leaf blade in transverse section transversely linear)"	"Melaleuca linophylla"
223	"Staminal filaments 5 mm or more long (if staminal filaments 4 mm long then leaf blade in transverse section suboblong, sublunate, flattened transversely semielliptic, or subcircular)"	224
224	"Stamens 4-9 per bundle"	225
224	"Stamens 10 or more per bundle"	227
225	"Stamens with the bundle claw 0.5 times as long as the filaments"	"Melaleuca kunzeoides"
225	"Stamens with the bundle claw 0.07-0.3 times as long as the filaments"	226
226	"Staminal filaments usually purple, mauve or pink, rarely cream to white; leaf blade usually narrowly ovate to linear ovate; hypanthium sericeous-pubescent or pubescent"	"Melaleuca squamea"
226	"Staminal filaments white or cream; leaf blade narrowly elliptic, linear-elliptic, very narrowly ovate or linear-ovate; hypanthium lanuginulose-puberulous"	"Melaleuca ericifolia"
227	"Leaf blade with pinnate venation (if ever parallel or parallel-pinnate then with 5 or more veins)"	"Melaleuca deanei"
227	"Leaf blade with parallel venation (the veins 3 in number)"	228
228	"Stamens with the bundle claw 0.2-0.3 times as long as the filaments"	229
228	"Stamens with the bundle claw 0.4-0.7 times as long as the filaments"	230
229	"Hypanthium sericeous-pubescent or pubescent"	"Melaleuca capitata"
229	"Hypanthium lanuginulose-puberulous"	"Melaleuca ericifolia"
230	"Leaf blade in transverse section transversely linear or sublunate; the leaves 4.6-22 times as long as wide"	231
230	"Leaf blade in transverse section depressed obovate, suboblong, sublunate, transversely semielliptic, or subcircular; leaves 6.9-48.6 times as long as wide"	232
231	"Stamens with the bundle claw 2.5-4.8 mm long; hypanthium 1.5-2.5 mm long; fruit with inserted valves"	"Melaleuca decora"
231	"Stamens with the bundle claw 5.5-8.2 mm long; hypanthium 1.2-1.5 mm long; fruit with exserted valves"	"Melaleuca trichostachya"
232	"Stamens with the free part of the filaments inserted in the distal half of the claw"	"Melaleuca rhaphiophylla"
232	"Stamens with the free part of the filaments inserted throughout the length of the claw or almost so"	"Melaleuca dissitiflora"
233	"Stamens 4-5 per bundle"	"Melaleuca calothamnoides"
233	"Stamens 6 or more per bundle"	234
234	"Leaf blade with  parallel venation (the veins 3 in number)"	235
234	"Leaf blade with pinnate venation (if ever parallel or parallel-pinnate then with 5 or more veins)"	237
235	"Stamens more than 30 per bundle,  the free part of the filaments inserted in the distal three-quarters or throughout (or almost so) the length of the bundle claw"	"Melaleuca alternifolia"
235	"Stamens up to 25 per bundle, the free part of the filaments inserted at the apex or in the distal one-quarter of the bundle claw"	236
236	"Staminal filaments up to 13 mm long, purple or mauve or pink"	"Melaleuca subfalcata"
236	"Staminal filaments 15-18 mm long, red"	"Melaleuca apostiba"
237	"Staminal filaments white"	"Melaleuca deanei"
237	"Staminal filaments red"	238
238	"Inflorescence 35-50 mm wide; leaf blade usually very narrowly elliptic or narrowly elliptic"	"Melaleuca viminalis"
238	"Inflorescence 50-75 mm wide; leaf blade usually linear-obovate or narrowly obovate"	"Melaleuca glauca"
239	"Staminal filaments hairy"	"Melaleuca lasiandra"
239	"Staminal filaments glabrous"	240
240	"Staminal filaments white, cream, yellow(ish), or green"	241
240	"Staminal filaments pink, red, crimson, mauve, or purple"	287
241	"Leaves up to 5 mm wide"	242
241	"Leaves 5 mm or more wide"	262
242	"Hypanthium distinctly stipitate; inflorescence axis glabrous"	"Melaleuca stipitata"
242	"Hypanthium not stipitate; inflorescence axis hairy or rarely glabrous"	243
243	"Leaf blade linear"	244
243	"Leaf blade otherwise (sometimes linear-elliptic or linear-obovate)"	245
244	"Trunk or main stem bark papery; leaves twisted and the apex uncinate; leaves more than 20 mm long"	"Melaleuca uncinata"
244	"Trunk or main stem bark hard; leaves not twisted and the apex not uncinate; leaves up to 15 mm long"	"Melaleuca lanceolata"
245	"Calyx obsolete"	"Melaleuca cornucopiae"
245	"Calyx well developed"	246
246	"Leaf blade recurved at the apex (apex may appear to be incurved due to twisting of the lamina)"	247
246	"Leaf blade straight at the apex"	248
247	"Leaves 3.4-22 mm long"	"Melaleuca bracteata"
247	"Leaves 31-76 mm long"	"Melaleuca uncinata"
248	"Leaves up to 25 mm long"	249
248	"Leaves more than 25 mm long"	259
249	"Branchlets with at least some of the hairs lanuginulose to lanuginulose-puberulous"	250
249	"Branchlets without lanuginulose to lanuginulose-puberulous hairs (hairs sericeous, sericeous-pubescent, puberulous, or pubescent; the hairs may be distinctly flexuous and/or curved but are never lanuginulose)"	253
250	"Leaf blade with the oil glands scattered"	251
250	"Leaf blade with the oil glands more or less in rows"	252
251	"Style 6-7 mm long"	"Melaleuca decora"
251	"Style 7.5-12 mm long"	"Melaleuca preissiana"
252	"Bark hard; ovules c. 30-50 per locule"	"Melaleuca lanceolata"
252	"Bark papery; ovules c. 80-145 per locule"	"Melaleuca sieberi"
253	"Leaves petiolate (sometimes shortly so)"	254
253	"Leaves sessile"	257
254	"Calyx lobes hairy on the abaxial surface"	"Melaleuca sericea"
254	"Calyx lobes glabrous on the abaxial surface"	255
255	"Leaf blade 5-7-veined"	"Melaleuca hnatiukii"
255	"Leaf blade 3-veined"	256
256	"Petals 2-3.5 mm long; leaf blade margin minutely crenulate to subentire"	"Melaleuca zonalis"
256	"Petals 1.5-2 mm long; leaf blade margin verrucose"	"Melaleuca ciliosa"
257	"Leaf blade 15-30-veined; bark papery"	"Melaleuca styphelioides"
257	"Leaf blade 3-15-veined; bark hard"	258
258	"Cotyledons planoconvex; ovules c. 40-55 per locule; stamens 15-20 per bundle"	"Melaleuca squamophloia"
258	"Cotyledons obvolute; ovules c. 30 per locule; stamens 15-28 per bundle"	"Melaleuca bracteata"
259	"Branchlets pubescent (rarely to puberulous)"	"Melaleuca zonalis"
259	"Branchlets sericeous, or sericeous-pubescent to pubescent with some shorter pubescent hairs"	260
260	"Triads distant (at least 1 hypanthium diameter apart, sometimes within an inflorescence some of the triads are closer)"	"Melaleuca stenostachya"
260	"Triads clustered (less than 1 hypanthium diameter apart)"	261
261	"Ovules 10-15 per locule"	"Melaleuca sericea"
261	"Ovules c. 40-50 per locule"	"Melaleuca saligna"
262	"Hypanthium distinctly hairy"	263
262	"Hypanthium glabrous or effectively so"	279
263	"Leaves 15-30-veined"	"Melaleuca styphelioides"
263	"Leaves up to 9-veined"	264
264	"Leaf blade indumentum with at least some of the hairs lanuginulose or sericeous-lanuginulose (whether or not also with pubescent to sericeous-pubescent hairs)"	265
264	"Leaf blade indumentum without lanuginulose or sericeous-lanuginulose hairs (the hairs sericeous, sericeous-pubescent, pubescent, puberulous, or ciliate)"	269
265	"Staminal filaments 5-8 mm long"	266
265	"Staminal filaments 10-23 mm long"	267
266	"Calyx lobes 0.5-0.8 mm long, herbaceous in the proximal-central zone and with a broad scarious marginal band"	"Melaleuca saligna"
266	"Calyx lobes 0.9-1.5 mm long, herbaceous nearly throughout or with a very narrow scarious marginal band"	"Melaleuca dealbata"
267	"Bark subpapery (tight, fissured); branchlet indumentum shaggy (pubescent hairs very long)"	"Melaleuca triumphalis"
267	"Bark papery; branchlet indumentum never shaggy (pubescent hairs, if present, short)"	268
268	"Leaves 1.6-10.2 times as long as wide, the blade 5-40 mm wide; hypanthium 1.8-3.5 mm long; stamens 3-7 per bundle"	"Melaleuca nervosa"
268	"Leaves 5-20 times as long as wide, the blade 5-19 mm wide; hypanthium 1.3-2 mm long; stamens 3-9 per bundle"	"Melaleuca fluviatilis"
269	"Calyx absent"	"Melaleuca cornucopiae"
269	"Calyx present"	270
270	"Inflorescence up to 30 mm wide"	271
270	"Inflorescence more than 30 mm wide"	278
271	"Leaf blade 3-5-veined"	272
271	"Leaf blade 5-9-veined"	274
272	"Calyx lobes hairy on the abaxial surface"	"Melaleuca sericea"
272	"Calyx lobes glabrous on the abaxial surface"	273
273	"Petals 2-3.5 mm long; leaf blade margin minutely crenulate to subentire"	"Melaleuca zonalis"
273	"Petals 1.5-2 mm long; leaf blade margin verrucose"	"Melaleuca ciliosa"
274	"Inflorescence up to 20 mm wide"	275
274	"Inflorescence more than 20 mm wide"	276
275	"Triads distant (at least 1 hypanthium diameter apart, sometimes within an inflorescence some of the triads are closer)"	"Melaleuca stenostachya"
275	"Triads clustered (less than 1 hypanthium diameter apart)"	"Melaleuca sericea"
276	"Calyx lobes herbaceous in the proximal-central zone and scarious in a narrow marginal band (leaves 4.8-14 times as long as wide)"	"Melaleuca argentea"
276	"Calyx lobes herbaceous in the proximal-central zone and scarious in a broad marginal band (leaves 1.3-9.7 times as long as wide)"	277
277	"Older leaves with the secondary venation distinct and about as prominent as the major veins"	"Melaleuca cajuputi"
277	"Older leaves with the secondary venation more or less obscure"	"Melaleuca quinquenervia"
278	"Hypanthium (1.8-)3-3.5 mm long; petals (2.7-)4-5.3 mm long; leaves (8-)19-76 mm wide; inflorescence axis sericeous or pubescent (occasionally glabrous); young shoots with hairs entirely appressed"	"Melaleuca viridiflora"
278	"Hypanthium 1.5-2.5 mm long; petals 2.5-3.5 mm long; leaves 10-30 mm wide; inflorescence axis pubescent; young shoots with at least some spreading-ascending to spreading hairs"	"Melaleuca quinquenervia"
279	"Leaf blade with the oil glands in rows or more or less so"	"Melaleuca hnatiukii"
279	"Leaf blade with the oil glands scattered"	280
280	"Calyx lobes hairy on the abaxial surface"	281
280	"Calyx lobes glabrous on the abaxial surface"	282
281	"Staminal filaments 5-7.5 mm long"	"Melaleuca dealbata"
281	"Staminal filaments (9-)12-23 mm long"	"Melaleuca viridiflora"
282	"Calyx lobes herbaceous in the proximal-central zone and scarious in a narrow marginal band or the lobes herbaceous almost throughout"	283
282	"Calyx lobes herbaceous in the proximal-central zone and scarious in a broad marginal band"	284
283	"Staminal filaments 6-7 mm long; leaves 30-110 mm long, 3.3-9 times as long as wide; bark hard"	"Melaleuca clarksonii"
283	"Staminal filaments 7-16 mm long; leaves 75-270 mm long, 3.5-16.1 times as long as wide; bark papery"	"Melaleuca leucadendra"
284	"Leaf blade narrowly ovate, very narrowly ovate, rarely narrowly elliptic or very narrowly elliptic, often falcate to subfalcate; leaves 3.5-16 times as long as wide, very early glabrescent; petals with elliptic oil glands (occasionally long elliptic glands form an apparently linear gland)"	"Melaleuca leucadendra"
284	"Leaf blade narrowly elliptic, elliptic, very narrowly elliptic, narrowly obovate, obovate, very narrowly obovate, rarely broadly elliptic or ovate or very narrowly ovate or approaching falcate; leaves usually 1.3-8.5 times as long as wide (in some forms of M. viridiflora 4.8-15.7 times as long as wide with the blade very narrowly elliptic, narrowly elliptic or narrowly obovate or very narrowly obovate), typically not very early glabrescent; petals with oil glands linear, elliptic, circular to subcircular, or oblong"	285
285	"Staminal filaments 9.2-10 mm long, the bundle claw 0.2-0.4 times as long as the filaments"	"Melaleuca cajuputi"
285	"Staminal filaments (9.5-)10.5-23 mm long, the bundle claw 0.06-0.2(-0.5) times as long as the filaments"	286
286	"Hypanthium 1.5-2.5 mm long; petals 2.5-3.5 mm long; leaves 10-30 mm wide; inflorescence axis pubescent; young shoots with at least some spreading-ascending to spreading hairs"	"Melaleuca quinquenervia"
286	"Hypanthium (1.8-)3-3.5 mm long; petals (2.7-)4-5.3 mm long; leaves (8-)19-76 mm wide; inflorescence axis sericeous or pubescent (occasionally glabrous); young shoots with hairs entirely appressed"	"Melaleuca viridiflora"
287	"Leaves up to 3 mm wide"	288
287	"Leaves more than 3 mm wide"	296
288	"Petals caducous"	289
288	"Petals deciduous"	291
289	"Branchlets pubescent or glabrous"	"Melaleuca tuberculata"
289	"Branchlets sericeous"	290
290	"Leaf blade indumentum monomorphic (appressed to spreading-ascending, sericeous to sericeous-pubescent hairs)"	"Melaleuca leuropoma"
290	"Leaf blade indumentum more or less dimorphic (appressed to ascending more or less sericeous hairs overlaid with longer spreading pubescent hairs)"	"Melaleuca parviceps"
291	"Leaves more than 50 mm long"	"Melaleuca nematophylla"
291	"Leaves up to 35 mm long"	292
292	"Leaf blade in transverse section transversely linear"	"Melaleuca caeca"
292	"Leaf blade in transverse section otherwise (circular, depressed obovate, transversely elliptic, transversely narrowly elliptic)"	293
293	"Style 4.5-7 mm long"	294
293	"Style 9.5-17 mm long"	295
294	"Leaves sessile to subsessile (petiole up to 0.3 mm long), 6.5-27 mm long"	"Melaleuca carrii"
294	"Leaves short-petiolate to subsessile (petiole 0.5-1.3 mm long), 3.5-8.5 mm long"	"Melaleuca societatis"
295	"Leaves appressed to ascending (rarely spreading-ascending), 6.3-19.6 times as long as wide; calyx lobes usually scarious throughout (rarely herbaceous in the proximal-central zone); petals 1.3-2.2 mm long; staminal filaments 7.5-9.5 mm long"	"Melaleuca clavifolia"
295	"Leaves ascending to spreading-ascending (rarely appressed or spreading), 9.5-76.7 times as long as wide; calyx lobes usually herbaceous in the proximal-central zone and scarious in a narrow to broad marginal zone (rarely almost scarious throughout); petals 1.8-3.5 mm long; staminal filaments 7.5-16.5 mm long"	"Melaleuca trichophylla"
296	"Staminal filaments pink, mauve, or purple"	297
296	"Staminal filaments red or crimson"	307
297	"Leaf blade with the base attenuate, or narrowly cuneate"	298
297	"Leaf blade with the base cordate, subcordate, or rounded"	306
298	"Leaves with the petiole more than 5 mm long, 10-31 mm wide"	"Melaleuca quinquenervia"
298	"Leaves with the petiole up to 4 mm long, up to 15 mm wide (if leaf more than 11 mm wide then calyx lobes on the abaxial surface hairy)"	299
299	"Staminal filaments 4-6.5 mm long; style 6.5-8.5 mm long"	"Melaleuca glena"
299	"Staminal filaments 7.3-14.5 mm long; style (8-)10-19.5 mm long"	300
300	"Calyx lobes glabrous on the abaxial surface"	301
300	"Calyx lobes hairy on the abaxial surface"	303
301	"Leaf blade narrowly oblong (occasionally approaching narrowly elliptic or very narrowly ovate)"	"Melaleuca fabri"
301	"Leaf blade obovate, narrowly obovate, very narrowly obovate, linear-elliptic, narrowly elliptic, or rarely elliptic"	302
302	"Branchlet indumentum of appressed sericeous hairs"	"Melaleuca campanae"
302	"Branchlet indumentum of spreading-ascending to spreading pubescent hairs (sometimes with the hairs appressed to ascending and then sericeous-pubescent or rarely sericeous)"	"Melaleuca venusta"
303	"Hypanthium glabrous"	"Melaleuca nesophila"
303	"Hypanthium hairy"	304
304	"Leaf blade hairy"	"Melaleuca venusta"
304	"Leaf blade glabrescent"	305
305	"Leaf blade with parallel venation (5-veined, rarely 7-veined leaves occur on vigorous growth)"	"Melaleuca conothamnoides"
305	"Leaf blade with pinnate or parallel-pinnate venation (rarely parallel entirely, pinnate veins c. 7-11 on each side of the midrib)"	"Melaleuca barlowii"
306	"Leaves 0.8-1.8 times as long as wide, the blade broadly ovate to ovate"	"Melaleuca cordata"
306	"Leaves 1.9-5.2 times as long as wide, the blade narrowly obovate, oblong, narrowly elliptic, elliptic, obovate, or rarely ovate"	"Melaleuca conothamnoides"
307	"Calyx lobes glabrous on the abaxial surface"	308
307	"Calyx lobes hairy or glabrescent (rarely glabrous) on the abaxial surface"	309
308	"Calyx lobes 0.3-0.7 mm long (southwestern Western Australia)"	"Melaleuca conothamnoides"
308	"Calyx lobes 1-1.8 mm long (coastal Queensland and New South Wales)"	"Melaleuca quinquenervia"
309	"Young shoots with at least some lanuginulose hairs (sericeous-pubescent, pubescent, and/or other hair types usually also present)"	"Melaleuca nervosa"
309	"Young shoots without lanuginulose hairs (the hairs sericeous or sericeous-pubescent)"	310
310	"Hypanthium (1.8-)3-3.5 mm long; petals (2.7-)4-5.3 mm long; leaves(8-)19-76 mm wide; inflorescence axis sericeous or pubescent (occasionally glabrous); young shoots with hairs entirely appressed"	"Melaleuca viridiflora"
310	"Hypanthium 1.5-2.5 mm long; petals 2.5-3.5 mm long; leaves 10-30 mm wide; inflorescence axis pubescent; young shoots with at least some spreading-ascending to spreading hairs"	"Melaleuca quinquenervia"
311	"Leaves less than 3 mm wide"	312
311	"Leaves 3 mm or more wide"	500
312	"Flowers in monads"	313
312	"Flowers in triads or dyads"	376
313	"Stamens dimorphic"	"Melaleuca pulchella"
313	"Stamens monomorphic"	314
314	"Hypanthium glabrous (or effectively so)"	315
314	"Hypanthium hairy"	349
315	"Calyx lobes costate"	316
315	"Calyx lobes not costate"	318
316	"Style 2-4 mm long; staminal filaments distinctly papillate, the free portion of the proximal filaments strongly reflexed"	"Melaleuca delta"
316	"Style 7-10.5 mm long; staminal filaments not papillate, the free portion of the proximal filaments not reflexed"	317
317	"Leaf blade with indumentum composed of long cilia on the margin (the lamina per se is glabrous), glabrescent"	"Melaleuca undulata"
317	"Leaf blade with indumentum composed of sericeous or sericeous-lanuginulous hairs (sometimes with some lanuginulose-puberulous or lanuginulose hairs also), glabrescent"	"Melaleuca lateriflora"
318	"Leaf blade 1-3-veined"	319
318	"Leaf blade 5-6-veined"	346
319	"Leaf blade with the oil glands scattered"	320
319	"Leaf blade with the oil glands in rows or more or less so"	329
320	"Inflorescence axis glabrous"	321
320	"Inflorescence axis hairy"	323
321	"Stamens 3-5 per bundle"	"Melaleuca blaeriifolia"
321	"Stamens 6-16 per bundle"	322
322	"Leaves 2.9-5.5 mm long, the blade narrowly elliptic, elliptic or narrowly suboblong-elliptic"	"Melaleuca camptoclada"
322	"Leaves 30-90 mm long, the blade linear"	"Melaleuca teretifolia"
323	"Hypanthium 1-2 mm long"	324
323	"Hypanthium 2-3.2 mm long"	326
324	"Stamens 3-5 per bundle"	"Melaleuca blaeriifolia"
324	"Stamens 7-25 per bundle"	325
325	"Stamens 7-14 per bundle; leaf blade in transverse section flattened transversely semielliptic"	"Melaleuca ericifolia"
325	"Stamens 11-25 per bundle; leaf blade in transverse section depressed obovate (occasionally transversely semielliptic or circular)"	"Melaleuca rhaphiophylla"
326	"Hypanthium when detached leaving a circular scar on the inflorescence axis; calyx lobes scarious in a broad marginal band (0.4-0.5 mm wide)"	"Melaleuca leiocarpa"
326	"Hypanthium when detached leaving a very narrowly elliptic, elliptic, broadly elliptic, or ovate scar on the inflorescence axis; calyx lobes herbaceous to the margin or scarious in a narrow marginal band (up to 0.3 mm wide)"	327
327	"Hypanthium when detached leaving a very narrowly elliptic scar on the inflorescence axis (leaves 8-40 mm long; stamens 11-25 per bundle)"	"Melaleuca rhaphiophylla"
327	"Hypanthium when detached leaving an elliptic, broadly elliptic, or ovate scar on the inflorescence axis"	328
328	"Leaf blade in transverse section transversely linear or sublunate (leaves 4.5-12 mm long; stamens 4-9 per bundle)"	"Melaleuca squamea"
328	"Leaf blade in transverse section transversely semielliptic, semicircular, or strongly depressed obtriangular (leaves 4.5-12.8 mm long; stamens 3-13 per bundle)"	"Melaleuca torquata"
329	"Calyx lobes replaced by sepaline teeth in fruit"	330
329	"Calyx lobes not replaced by sepaline teeth in fruit (the lobes weathering away and teeth not developing, rarely the extreme proximal portion of the lobes may become woody and persist in M. lateralis and M. xerophila)"	340
330	"Growth from the inflorescence apex typically continuing after anthesis (growth may have commenced prior to, or at, anthesis)"	331
330	"Growth from the inflorescence apex typically not continuing after anthesis"	336
331	"Leaf blade at the apex rounded (and usually also at the base, sometimes at the base narrowly cuneate)"	332
331	"Leaf blade at the apex acute, narrowly acute, obtuse, obtusely shortly acuminate, or acuminate"	333
332	"Stamens with the bundle claw 4-5.5 mm long, the claw 0.6-0.7 times as long as the filaments"	"Melaleuca pomphostoma"
332	"Stamens with the bundle claw 1.5-2.3 mm long, the claw 0.3 times as long as the filaments"	"Melaleuca pauperiflora"
333	"Stamens with the bundle claw 0.1-0.2 times as long as the filaments"	"Melaleuca torquata"
333	"Stamens with the bundle claw 0.3-0.6 times as long as the filaments"	334
334	"Inflorescence axis lanuginulose-pubescent"	"Melaleuca bracteosa"
334	"Inflorescence axis puberulous to pubescent"	335
335	"Style at anthesis kinked at about three-quarters from the base; leaves 3-7.5 mm long"	"Melaleuca pauperiflora"
335	"Style at anthesis not kinked; leaves 4-20 mm long"	"Melaleuca viminea"
336	"Staminal filaments 1.5-3.5 mm long; style 4-5.5 mm long (when straightened)"	"Melaleuca apodocephala"
336	"Staminal filaments (3.7-)4-7 mm long; style 5.6-8 mm long (when straightened)"	337
337	"Calyx lobes hairy or glabrescent on the abaxial surface"	"Melaleuca viminea"
337	"Calyx lobes glabrous on the abaxial surface"	338
338	"Stamens 3-8 per bundle"	"Melaleuca bracteosa"
338	"Stamens 10-23 per bundle"	339
339	"Inflorescence a lateral cluster of flowers (among or below the leaves) or a pseudoterminal head; hypanthium 1.5-1.8 mm long; cotyledons obvolute"	"Melaleuca apodocephala"
339	"Inflorescence a pseudoterminal head (lateral inflorescences may also occur in distal axils of the previous season’s growth flush); hypanthium 2-2.5 mm long; cotyledons planoconvex"	"Melaleuca pauperiflora"
340	"Style at anthesis kinked at about three-quarters from the base"	341
340	"Style at anthesis not kinked (style may be slightly flexuous but is not kinked per se)"	342
341	"Inflorescence axis puberulous to pubescent"	"Melaleuca pauperiflora"
341	"Inflorescence axis lanuginulose, lanuginulose-puberulous, or sometimes puberulous"	"Melaleuca xerophila"
342	"Inflorescence axis glabrous"	"Melaleuca brevifolia"
342	"Inflorescence axis hairy"	343
343	"Anther connective prominently glandular"	344
343	"Anther connective not prominently glandular (discernible but not large)"	345
344	"Inflorescence with 4-15 monads; staminal filaments pink, mauve or reddish pink"	"Melaleuca lateralis"
344	"Inflorescence with 15-30 monads; staminal filaments yellow (or perhaps whitish but never pink, mauve or reddish pink)"	"Melaleuca pustulata"
345	"Staminal filaments 2.3-4.2 mm long, the bundle claw 0.1-0.8 mm long"	"Melaleuca parvistaminea"
345	"Staminal filaments 4-7.3 mm long, the bundle claw 2.3-3.7 mm long"	"Melaleuca viminea"
346	"Leaf blade with the oil glands scattered"	347
346	"Leaf blade with the oil glands in rows or more or less so"	348
347	"Stamens 4-9 per bundle, the filaments purple, mauve, pink or cream to white; cotyledons planoconvex"	"Melaleuca squamea"
347	"Stamens 7-11 per bundle, the filaments cream or creamy-yellow; cotyledons obvolute"	"Melaleuca ringens"
348	"Inflorescences among the leaves, terminal or pseudoterminal; style 5-6.8 mm long; ovules 30-35 per locule"	"Melaleuca pauperiflora"
348	"Inflorescences below the leaves, lateral (the plant ramuliflorous to ramiflorous); style 10-14.5 mm long; ovules 95-110 per locule"	"Melaleuca fissurata"
349	"Flowers with the proximal portion immerged in the corky bark of the branches and major stems (often only the perianth, stamens and style are exserted)"	"Melaleuca suberosa"
349	"Flowers not immerged in the bark of branches or major stems"	350
350	"Staminal filaments white, cream, yellow, or green (sometimes ageing pinkish, salmon, or reddish)"	351
350	"Staminal filaments pink, mauve, purple, or magenta (sometimes ageing whitish)"	373
351	"Leaf blade with the oil glands scattered"	352
351	"Leaf blade with the oil glands in rows or more or less so"	360
352	"Petals with oil glands"	353
352	"Petals without oil glands"	359
353	"Calyx lobes replaced by sepaline teeth in fruit"	354
353	"Calyx lobes not replaced by sepaline teeth in fruit (sepals may be deciduous, persistent or may weather away with the extreme proximal portion becoming woody and persisting as a ring around the orifice of the fruit or a series of low undulations)"	355
354	"Hypanthium 1-1.8 mm long; calyx lobes 0.5-0.7 mm long"	"Melaleuca ericifolia"
354	"Hypanthium 2-2.4 mm long; calyx lobes 1.2-1.4 mm long"	"Melaleuca bromelioides"
355	"Leaf blade in transverse section depressed obovate, transversely semielliptic, transversely narrowly elliptic, or circular"	356
355	"Leaf blade in transverse section transversely linear, sublunate, or oblunate"	357
356	"Calyx lobes herbaceous in the proximal-central zone and scarious in a marginal band"	"Melaleuca rhaphiophylla"
356	"Calyx lobes scarious throughout"	"Melaleuca urceolaris"
357	"Leaf blade narrowly ovate, very narrowly ovate, linear-ovate, subulate, or ovate"	"Melaleuca squamea"
357	"Leaf blade narrowly obovate, linear-obovate, narrowly elliptic, or linear-elliptic"	358
358	"Stamens 7-11 per bundle, the filaments 2.5-5.5 mm long"	"Melaleuca citrolens"
358	"Stamens 14-33 per bundle, the filaments 6-10 mm long"	"Melaleuca capitata"
359	"Inflorescence composed of a single monad"	"Melaleuca cliffortioides"
359	"Inflorescence composed of 3-14 monads"	"Melaleuca leiocarpa"
360	"Inflorescence usually consistently composed of a single monad (occasionally up to 3 monads per inflorescence)"	361
360	"Inflorescence usually consistently composed of more than a single monad (usually 3-50, occasionally as few as 1 monad per inflorescence)"	362
361	"Stamens 8-13 per bundle"	"Melaleuca cliffortioides"
361	"Stamens 30-45 per bundle"	"Melaleuca podiocarpa"
362	"Growth from the inflorescence apex typically continuing after anthesis (growth may have commenced prior to, or at, anthesis)"	363
362	"Growth from the inflorescence apex typically not continuing after anthesis"	370
363	"Calyx lobes scarious throughout"	"Melaleuca laetifica"
363	"Calyx lobes herbaceous in the proximal-central zone and scarious in a marginal band, sometimes herbaceous almost to the margin"	364
364	"Style at anthesis kinked at about three-quarters from the base"	"Melaleuca pauperiflora"
364	"Style at anthesis not kinked (style may be slightly flexuous but is not kinked per se)"	365
365	"Stamens 3-6 per bundle"	"Melaleuca densa"
365	"Stamens (4-)9-33 per bundle"	366
366	"Leaves twisted to untwisted, 10-25 mm long, the blade in transverse section transversely linear (eastern New South Wales)"	"Melaleuca capitata"
366	"Leaves untwisted, 2-20 mm long, the blade in transverse section transversely linear or otherwise (transversely semielliptic, depressed obovate, transverselly elliptic, shallowly lunate, etc; southwestern Western Australia)"	367
367	"Calyx lobes 0.5-1 mm long"	368
367	"Calyx lobes 1-2.4 mm long"	369
368	"Leaves 2-3.5 mm long"	"Melaleuca sheathiana"
368	"Leaves (3-)4-20 mm long"	"Melaleuca viminea"
369	"Calyx lobes 1-1.5 mm long; stamens 13-22 per bundle"	"Melaleuca linguiformis"
369	"Calyx lobes 1.6-2.4 mm long; stamens 12-16 per bundle"	"Melaleuca teuthidoides"
370	"Leaf blade 3-veined"	371
370	"Leaf blade 7-17-veined"	372
371	"Anther connective prominently glandular"	"Melaleuca apodocephala"
371	"Anther connective not prominently glandular (discernible but not large)"	"Melaleuca viminea"
372	"Petals with oil glands; leaf blade usually with distinct oil glands; ovules 15-30 per locule"	"Melaleuca undulata"
372	"Petals without oil glands; leaf blade usually with obscure oil glands; ovules 38-44 per locule"	"Melaleuca coronicarpa"
373	"Leaf blade in transverse section depressed obovate, subcircular, or transversely elliptic"	"Melaleuca calyptroides"
373	"Leaf blade in transverse section transversely linear, sublunate, or lunate"	374
374	"Leaf blade narrowly ovate, very narrowly ovate, linear-ovate, subulate, or ovate"	"Melaleuca squamea"
374	"Leaf blade obovate, elliptic, narrowly elliptic, or rarely broadly obovate or narrowly obovate"	375
375	"Infructescence typically globose or subglobose (the constituent fruits closely packed (often into a ball-like structure) and not retaining a significant separate identity); majority of leaves on the specimen 1.6-1.8 times as long as wide (range 1-2.2)"	"Melaleuca ryeae"
375	"Infructescence typically not globose or subglobose (the constituent fruits ""peg-like"" and retaining a significant separate identity), or sometimes approaching globose or subglobose with the constituent fruits somewhat closely packed; majority of leaves on the specimen 2-2.8 times as long as wide (range 1.5-4.8)"	"Melaleuca amydra"
376	"Staminal filaments white, cream, yellow, or greenish yellow (ageing salmon, pinkish or reddish)"	377
376	"Staminal filaments pink, mauve, purple, purplish pink, magenta, rose pink, violet, or rarely red (ageing white, or whitish mauve)"	415
377	"Petals caducous"	378
377	"Petals deciduous"	390
378	"Calyx lobes scarious throughout"	379
378	"Calyx lobes herbaceous in the proximal-central zone and scarious in a narrow to wide marginal band  (when unlobed, i.e. the calyx composed of an unbroken ring of tissue, up to 5 areas of herbaceous tissue may occur)"	385
379	"Infructescence typically globose or subglobose (the constituent fruits closely packed (often into a ball-like structure) and not retaining a significant separate identity)"	380
379	"Infructescence typically not globose or subglobose (the constituent fruits ""peg-like"" and retaining a significant separate identity)"	382
380	"Calyx lobes consistently 5; leaves 4.5-16 mm long, 2.7-14.5 times as long as wide"	"Melaleuca brophyi"
380	"Calyx lobes variable in number, often 2-4 or occasionally 5; leaves 8-52 mm long, 7.8-74 times as long as wide"	381
381	"Leaves 18-52 mm long, 0.5-0.8 mm wide"	"Melaleuca borealis"
381	"Leaves 8-21 mm long, 0.8-1.2 mm wide"	"Melaleuca uncinata"
382	"Hypanthium glabrous"	"Melaleuca systena"
382	"Hypanthium hairy"	383
383	"Branchlet indumentum composed of pubescent to lanuginulose-puberulous or rarely lanuginose-pubescent hairs (rarely some lanuginulose hairs may also occur)"	"Melaleuca virgata"
383	"Branchlet indumentum composed of a layer of short dense puberulous to shortly pubescent hairs overlaid with sparse longish pubescent hairs, or of sericeous-pubescent to sericeous hairs, or of sericeous hairs"	384
384	"Branchlet indumentum composed of a layer of short dense puberulous to shortly pubescent hairs overlaid with sparse longish pubescent hairs"	"Melaleuca systena"
384	"Branchlet indumentum composed of sericeous-pubescent to sericeous hairs, or consisting of sericeous hairs"	"Melaleuca leuropoma"
385	"Infructescence typically globose or subglobose (the constituent fruits closely packed (often into a ball-like structure) and not retaining a significant separate identity)"	386
385	"Infructescence typically not globose or subglobose (the constituent fruits ""peg-like"" and retaining a significant separate identity)"	388
386	"Leaves 4-12 mm long, the blade obovate to elliptic (sometimes narrowly so)"	"Melaleuca ciliosa"
386	"Leaves 18-83 mm long, the blade linear (sometimes oblong to linear-elliptic)"	387
387	"Leaves 0.5-0.8 mm wide, the apex straight to incurved; infructescence up to 6.5 mm wide"	"Melaleuca borealis"
387	"Leaves 0.7-2.2 mm wide, the apex recurved to straight; infructescence up to 12 mm wide"	"Melaleuca uncinata"
388	"Branchlet indumentum composed of sericeous-pubescent to sericeous hairs, or branchlet indumentum consisting of sericeous hairs"	"Melaleuca leuropoma"
388	"Branchlet indumentum composed of a layer of short dense puberulous to shortly pubescent hairs overlaid with sparse longish pubescent hairs"	389
389	"Leaves 4.4-18 times as long as wide; calyx with the margin ciliate; hypanthium 1.5-2.5 mm long"	"Melaleuca systena"
389	"Leaves 1.5-3 times as long as wide; calyx with the margin entire; hypanthium 1-1.5 mm long"	"Melaleuca ciliosa"
390	"Infructescence typically globose or subglobose (the constituent fruits closely packed (often into a ball-like structure) and not retaining a significant separate identity)"	391
390	"Infructescence typically not globose or subglobose (the constituent fruits ""peg-like"" and retaining a significant separate identity)"	408
391	"Leaf blade with the oil glands scattered"	392
391	"Leaf blade with the oil glands in rows or more or less so"	401
392	"Cotyledons obvolute"	393
392	"Cotyledons planoconvex to flattened planoconvex"	397
393	"Leaf blade 5-veined; hypanthium glabrescent or glabrous"	"Melaleuca croxfordiae"
393	"Leaf blade 3-veined; hypanthium persistently hairy"	394
394	"Calyx lobes glabrous on the abaxial surface"	395
394	"Calyx lobes hairy on the abaxial surface"	396
395	"Leaves with the blade twisted, the blade apex usually recurved (sometimes straight)"	"Melaleuca uncinata"
395	"Leaves with the blade untwisted, the blade apex straight"	"Melaleuca nodosa"
396	"Leaves with the blade twisted (usually through 180°), the blade apex usually recurved (sometimes straight)"	"Melaleuca uncinata"
396	"Leaves with the blade untwisted, the blade apex straight"	"Melaleuca glomerata"
397	"Leaves with the blade twisted (usually through 180°; when the blade is terete this may be difficult to ascertain), the blade apex usually recurved (sometimes straight)"	"Melaleuca uncinata"
397	"Leaves with the blade untwisted"	398
398	"Branchlet indumentum composed of spreading to more or less retrorse hairs"	"Melaleuca condylosa"
398	"Branchlet indumentum composed of appressed to more or less spreading hairs (the hairs sericeous-pubescent, lanuginose-sericeous, lanuginose-pubescent, sericeous-lanuginulose, hairs sometimes sericeous, or lanuginulose)"	399
399	"Leaf blade verrucose, the oil glands very distinct; stamens 3-6 per bundle, 3.5-6 mm long"	"Melaleuca brophyi"
399	"Leaf blade smooth or sometimes verrucose, the oil glands distinct or obscure; stamens 6-8 per bundle, 5-8 mm long"	400
400	"Calyx lobes distinct, 5"	"Melaleuca thapsina"
400	"Calyx lobes usually indistinct, 1-5 (usually the calyx exists as a ring of weakly lobed tissue, rarely with well formed lobes)"	"Melaleuca uncinata"
401	"Apex of leaf blade (i.e. mucro or acumen if applicable) straight or incurved; leaves untwisted"	402
401	"Apex of leaf blade (i.e. mucro or acumen) recurved; leaves usually twisted"	407
402	"Cotyledons planoconvex"	403
402	"Cotyledons obvolute"	406
403	"Calyx lobes herbaceous in the proximal-central zone and scarious in a marginal band"	"Melaleuca uncinata"
403	"Calyx lobes scarious throughout"	404
404	"Branchlet indumentum composed of pubescent to lanuginose-pubescent hairs"	"Melaleuca grieveana"
404	"Branchlet indumentum composed of sericeous hairs (these occasionally to sericeous-pubescent)"	405
405	"Leaf blade with the oil glands usually distinct, the hairs not soon deciduous"	"Melaleuca johnsonii"
405	"Leaf blade with the oil glands obscure, the hairs soon deciduous"	"Melaleuca halophila"
406	"Staminal filaments 5-8.5 mm long, the bundle claw 0.3-0.4 times as long as the filaments"	"Melaleuca nodosa"
406	"Staminal filaments 2.8-6.5 mm long, the bundle claw 0.5-0.8 times as long as the filaments"	"Melaleuca uncinata"
407	"Major branches with the proximal bark hard; calyx lobes scarious throughout; leaf blade in transverse section transversely oblenticular, flattened transversely semielliptic, transversely narrowly elliptic, transversely elliptic, or transversely oblong to transversely narrowly oblong"	"Melaleuca stereophloia"
407	"Major branches with the proximal bark papery; calyx lobes herbaceous in the proximal-central zone and scarious in a marginal band; leaf blade in transverse section transversely oblong, quadrate, or transversely semielliptic"	"Melaleuca uncinata"
408	"Style 4-6.5 mm long"	"Melaleuca glomerata"
408	"Style 10-15.5 mm long"	409
409	"Petals without oil glands"	"Melaleuca laetifica"
409	"Petals with oil glands"	410
410	"Leaf blade in transverse section transversely linear"	411
410	"Leaf blade in transverse section depressed obovate, transversely elliptic, or transversely narrowly elliptic"	414
411	"Leaf blade with the oil glands scattered"	412
411	"Leaf blade with the oil glands more or less in rows"	413
412	"Calyx lobes consistently 5"	"Melaleuca leiopyxis"
412	"Calyx lobes 2-5 (the calyx variously differentiated into lobes)"	"Melaleuca zonalis"
413	"Leaf blade narrowly obovate, very narrowly obovate, or narrowly elliptic; leaves 8.5-30.5 mm long; petal oil glands elliptic, subcircular, or rarely circular"	"Melaleuca zonalis"
413	"Leaf blade usually elliptic to narrowly elliptic, sometimes narrowly obovate, very narrowly obovate, or broadly elliptic; leaves 6.4-12.5 mm long; petal oil glands linear, elliptic or sometimes circular"	"Melaleuca depressa"
413	"Leaf blade obovate or elliptic; leaves 4.5-8.5 mm long; petal oil glands subcircular to circular"	"Melaleuca lara"
414	"Fruit 2.8-4 mm long; leaves 7.4-28 times as long as wide; ovules 8-10 per locule"	"Melaleuca urceolaris"
414	"Fruit 4.5-6.5 mm long; leaves 3-11 times as long as wide; ovules 15-20 per locule"	"Melaleuca leiopyxis"
415	"Petals caducous (rarely tardily so)"	416
415	"Petals deciduous (rarely early so)"	447
416	"Hypanthium glabrous or effectively so"	"Melaleuca pentagona"
416	"Hypanthium hairy"	417
417	"Leaf blade in transverse section transversely linear (rarely sublunate)"	418
417	"Leaf blade in transverse section otherwise (transversely semielliptic, transversely elliptic, lunate, sublunate, semicircular, circular, depressed obovate, etc)"	422
418	"Leaf blade subcircular, broadly ovate, transversely broadly elliptic, broadly elliptic, or rarely broadly obovate"	"Melaleuca orbicularis"
418	"Leaf blade narrowly elliptic, very narrowly elliptic, linear, linear-obovate, very narrowly obovate, narrowly obovate, or obovate"	419
419	"Style 6.5-7 (-c.8?) mm long"	"Melaleuca pentagona"
419	"Style 8.5-13 mm long"	420
420	"Leaf blade pinnately 6-9-veined"	"Melaleuca keigheryi"
420	"Leaf blade parallel 3-veined (some weakly developed pinnate veins may also occur but the blade primarily is 3-veined)"	421
421	"Leaf blade usually hairy (more or less early glabrescent forms sometimes occurring)"	"Melaleuca leptospermoides"
421	"Leaf blade glabrescent or sometimes glabrous"	"Melaleuca tuberculata"
422	"Infructescence typically globose or subglobose (the constituent fruits closely packed (often into a ball-like structure) and not retaining a significant separate identity)"	423
422	"Infructescence not globose or subglobose (the constituent fruits ""peg-like"" and retaining a significant separate identity)"	426
423	"Fruiting hypanthia distally coherent"	"Melaleuca pentagona"
423	"Fruiting hypanthia free from each other throughout their length"	424
424	"Calyx variously lobed (occasionally 5-, usually 2-4-lobed, rarely unlobed with the calyx then a continuous ring of tissue)"	"Melaleuca leuropoma"
424	"Calyx lobes consistently 5"	425
425	"Leaf blade in transverse section subcircular, circular, semicircular, rarely almost quadrate; leaves 9.5-38.3 times as long as wide; calyx lobes 0.3-0.6 mm long"	"Melaleuca filifolia"
425	"Leaf blade in transverse section transversely semielliptic, transversely narrowly elliptic, or rarely transversely narrowly oblong; leaves 6.2-10 times as long as wide; calyx lobes 0.5-0.8 mm long"	"Melaleuca boeophylla"
426	"Calyx lobes at the apex acute, rarely somewhat rounded (the lobes triangular, usually narrowly to very narrowly so)"	"Melaleuca aspalathoides"
426	"Calyx lobes at the apex rounded or truncate (the lobes never triangular)"	427
427	"Leaf blade 5-7-veined (and subcircular, broadly ovate, transversely eliptic, or broadly elliptic)"	"Melaleuca orbicularis"
427	"Leaf blade 3-veined (or if 5-veined then obovate, narrowly obovate, or very narrowly obovate)"	428
428	"Branchlet indumentum composed of predominantly pubescent hairs, or of scattered pubescent hairs overtopping sericeous to minutely sericeous hairs and whether or not some lanuginose or lanuginulose hairs also present; the branchlet hairy or glabrescent but never glabrous"	429
428	"Branchlet indumentum composed of sericeous to minutely sericeous hairs (whether or not some lanuginulose, sericeous-lanuginulose or lanuginulose-puberulous hairs also present), or of lanuginose to lanuginose-pubescent to lanuginose-sericeous hairs with longer appressed to ascending sericeous to sericeous-pubescent hairs, or of sericeous-pubescent to sericeous hairs, or branchlets glabrous"	440
428	"Branchlet glabrous"	446
429	"Leaf blade indumentum composed of pubescent and/or sericeous-pubescent hairs"	430
429	"Leaf blade indumentum composed of sericeous or more or less sericeous hairs, or more or less sericeous, lanuginose-sericeous to sericeous-lanuginulose grading to sericeous-pubescent hairs and often with some sparser long pubescent hairs as well, or leaf blade glabrous but for a few ephemeral stout pubescent hairs"	437
430	"Leaf blade obovate, narrowly obovate, very narrowly obovate, elliptic, or broadly elliptic, more than (1.1-)1.3 mm wide, the leaves 1.4-7.4 times as long as wide"	431
430	"Leaf blade linear, linear-obovate, suboblong, or oblong, 0.7-1.3 mm wide, the leaves 2.7-18.1 times as long as wide"	433
431	"Calyx hairs sericeous, lanuginulose, or lanuginulose-puberulous"	"Melaleuca leptospermoides"
431	"Calyx hairs pubescent or sericeous-pubscent, or calyx glabrous"	432
432	"Cotyledons obvolute; leaf blade often glaucous or greyish, sometimes greenish to brownish"	"Melaleuca tuberculata"
432	"Cotyledons planoconvex; leaf blade greenish to brownish"	"Melaleuca manglesii"
433	"Leaves glaucous"	"Melaleuca tuberculata"
433	"Leaves greenish or brownish (sometimes greyish or silverish)"	434
434	"Leaf blade recurved, in transverse section usually transversely semielliptic (leaves 3-7.5 mm long)"	"Melaleuca manglesii"
434	"Leaf blade incurved to straight, sometimes recurved, in transverse section usually depressed obovate or subcircular to circular (leaves 3.5-20 mm long)"	435
435	"Leaf blade indumentum of more or less sericeous to lanuginose-sericeous and/or sericeous-lanuginulose hairs grading to spreading-ascending sericeous-pubescent hairs, often with some sparse long pubescent hairs also"	"Melaleuca holosericea"
435	"Leaf blade indumentum  not as above"	436
436	"Leaf blade early glabrescent, glossy or dull, indumentum composed of longish pubescent to sericeous-pubescent hairs (these appearing more or less lanuginose-pubescent on growth in the early stages of expansion)"	"Melaleuca villosisepala"
436	"Leaf blade not early glabrescent, dull, indumentum composed of short to longish pubescent hairs and usually with a distinct layer of short hairs overtopped by a sparser layer of much longer hairs"	"Melaleuca wonganensis"
437	"Leaf blade obovate, narrowly obovate, or very narrowly obovate, more than 1.3 mm wide, 1.6-7.4 times as long as wide"	"Melaleuca leptospermoides"
437	"Leaf blade linear, or linear-obovate, 0.5-1.5 mm wide, 5-19.6 times as long as wide"	438
438	"Calyx lobes glabrous on the abaxial surface"	"Melaleuca procera"
438	"Calyx lobes hairy on the abaxial surface"	439
439	"Leaves sessile to subsessile, the petiole up to 0.8 mm long, the blade 0.5-1 mm wide; leaf blade indumentum of more or less sericeous to lanuginose-sericeous and/or sericeous-lanuginulose hairs grading to spreading-ascending sericeous-pubescent hairs, often with some sparse long pubescent hairs also"	"Melaleuca holosericea"
439	"Leaves subsessile to short-petiolate, the petiole 0.5-1.3 mm long, the blade 0.9-1.3 mm wide; leaf blade early glabrescent, glossy or dull, indumentum composed of longish pubescent to sericeous-pubescent hairs (these appearing more or less lanuginose-pubescent on growth in the early stages of expansion)"	"Melaleuca villosisepala"
440	"Leaf blade in transverse section transversely linear to sublunate"	"Melaleuca leptospermoides"
440	"Leaf blade in transverse section otherwise (depressed obovate, subcircular, transversely elliptic, or transversely narrowly elliptic)"	441
441	"Branchlet indumentum composed of lanuginose to lanuginose-pubescent and lanuginose-sericeous hairs and longer appressed to mostly ascending sericeous to sericeous-pubescent hairs"	"Melaleuca hollidayi"
441	"Branchlet indumentum composed of sericeous to sericeous-pubescent hairs, or of sericeous to minutely sericeous hairs (whether or not also with some obscure lanuginulose-type hairs)"	442
442	"Calyx lobes hairy on the abaxial surface"	443
442	"Calyx lobes glabrous on the abaxial surface"	445
443	"Hypanthium indumentum coarse (the pubescent hairs generally longer and straighter towards the hypanthium apex)"	"Melaleuca villosisepala"
443	"Hypanthium indumentum fine (the hairs sericeous, often minutely so, to pubescent or puberulous"	444
444	"Leaf blade dull, usually glaucous or greyish"	"Melaleuca calyptroides"
444	"Leaf blade more or less glossy, greenish or brownish"	"Melaleuca leuropoma"
445	"Leaf blade indumentum composed of more or less sericeous hairs overlaid with longer pubescent hairs"	"Melaleuca parviceps"
445	"Leaf blade indumentum composed of sericeous to sericeous-pubescent hairs"	"Melaleuca leuropoma"
446	"Leaves glaucous"	"Melaleuca tuberculata"
446	"Leaves greenish or brownish; style 11-16 mm long"	"Melaleuca procera"
447	"Infructescence typically globose or subglobose (the constituent fruits closely packed (often into a ball-like structure) and not retaining a significant separate identity)"	448
447	"Infructescence not globose or subglobose (the constituent fruits ""peg-like"" and retaining a significant separate identity)"	479
448	"Calyx lobes hairy on the abaxial surface"	449
448	"Calyx lobes glabrous on the abaxial surface"	460
449	"Style 4.5-8 mm long"	450
449	"Style 8.5-20 mm long"	455
450	"Leaf blade in transverse section transversely linear, or if transversely narrowly elliptic, transversely semielliptic, depressed obovate, or depressed obtriangular then the venation pinnate or parallel-pinnate (with c. 5-11 pinnate veins on each side of the midrib and up to 4 (excluding the midrib) parallel veins)"	451
450	"Leaf blade in transverse section circular, subcircular, semicircular, depressed obovate, transversely elliptic, or transversely narrowly elliptic, the blade sometimes channeled on the adaxial surface, the blade with 3 parallel veins"	453
451	"Branchlets with the indumentum composed of sericeous hairs; leaves 8-21.5 mm long, 5.3-16.6 times as long as wide, the blade with 3 parallel veins"	"Melaleuca caeca"
451	"Branchlets with the indumentum composed of pubescent, puberulous, or sericeous-pubescent hairs, rarely lanuginose-pubescent or sericeous; leaves 2.5-28 mm long, 1.5-7 times as long as wide, the blade venation pinnate or parallel-pinnate (with c. 5-11 pinnate veins on each side of the midrib and up to 4 (excluding the midrib) parallel veins)"	452
452	"Leaf blade in lateral view incurved to straight, verrucose (often strongly so); ovules c. 10-15 per locule"	"Melaleuca sclerophylla"
452	"Leaf blade in lateral view recurved (rarely straight), more or less smooth; ovules 5-6 per locule"	"Melaleuca spathulata"
453	"Leaf blade with the oil glands in rows or more or less in rows"	"Melaleuca concinna"
453	"Leaf blade with the oil glands scattered"	454
454	"Leaf blade strongly verrucose and often also verruculose or the blade verruculose only, the apex obtuse to acute (occasionally narrowly acute or indistinctly acuminate)"	"Melaleuca tinkeri"
454	"Leaf blade verruculose to smooth, the apex acuminate (rarely acute to obtuse)"	"Melaleuca carrii"
455	"Leaf blade in transverse section transversely linear, sublunate, or lunate"	456
455	"Leaf blade in transverse section circular, subcircular, depressed obovate, transversely elliptic, or transversely narrowly elliptic"	457
456	"Leaf blade usually elliptic (sometimes narrowly elliptic or narrowly obovate); majority of leaves on the specimen 2-2.8 times as long as wide (range 1.5-4.8)"	"Melaleuca amydra"
456	"Leaf blade usually narrowly obovate to very narrowly obovate (sometimes obovate, linear-obovate, narrowly elliptic, or elliptic); majority of leaves on the specimen 2.5-5 times as long as wide (range 2-7.5)"	"Melaleuca seriata"
456	"Leaf blade usually obovate (occasionally elliptic, rarely obovate); majority of leaves on the specimen 1.6-1.8 times as long as wide (range 1-2.2)"	"Melaleuca ryeae"
457	"Leaf blade with the oil glands scattered"	458
457	"Leaf blade with the oil glands in rows or more less in rows"	459
458	"Style 7.5-9 mm long; leaf blade indumentum composed of ascending to spreading-ascending sericeous-pubescent hairs and rarely with some appressed sericeous or lanuginose-sericeous hairs as well, or only of appressed to ascending sericeous to lanuginose-sericeous hairs"	"Melaleuca tinkeri"
458	"Style 9.5-20 mm long; leaf blade indumentum composed of spreading pubescent hairs (these rarely dimorphic with a dense short layer of hairs overtopped by long hairs, rarely the short layer of hairs more or less lanuginulose-puberulous)"	"Melaleuca trichophylla"
459	"Leaf blade in transverse section transversely elliptic or depressed obovate; hypanthium with hairs evenly distributed on the outer wall; leaf blade 0.5-0.9 mm wide"	"Melaleuca clavifolia"
459	"Leaf blade in transverse section transversely linear, transversely semielliptic or sublunate; hypanthium with hairs on the proximal region only of the outer wall; leaf blade 1-2.7 mm wide"	"Melaleuca seriata"
460	"Leaves 55-155 mm long"	"Melaleuca nematophylla"
460	"Leaves up to 35 mm long"	461
461	"Style up to 8 mm long"	462
461	"Style 8.5 mm long or more"	474
462	"Petiole up to 0.3 mm long"	463
462	"Petiole more than 0.3 mm long"	467
463	"Leaf blade in transverse section transversely linear"	464
463	"Leaf blade in transverse section subcircular, circular transversely elliptic, transversely narrowly elliptic, depressed obovate"	465
464	"Leaf blade elliptic, narrowly elliptic, narrowly ovate, or ovate; leaves 2-4.5 mm wide, 2-3.9 times as long as wide"	"Melaleuca polycephala"
464	"Leaf blade very narrowly obovate or linear-obovate; leaves 1-2.5 mm wide, 5.3-16.6 times as long as wide"	"Melaleuca caeca"
465	"Leaf blade with the oil glands scattered"	"Melaleuca carrii"
465	"Leaf blade with the oil glands in rows or more or less so"	466
466	"Leaves 2-3.3 mm long, never glaucous"	"Melaleuca seriata"
466	"Leaves 5-19.5 mm long, sometimes glaucous"	"Melaleuca rigidifolia"
467	"Branchlets hairy to glabrescent"	468
467	"Branchlets glabrous"	471
468	"Leaves 2-3.3 mm long"	"Melaleuca seriata"
468	"Leaves 3.5-19.5 mm long"	469
469	"Petiole less than 0.5 mm long"	"Melaleuca rigidifolia"
469	"Petiole 0.5-1.3 mm long"	470
470	"Leaf blade in lateral view incurved to straight, rarely recurved; hypanthium usually glabrous, if hairy the the hairs on the proximal region of the outer wall only"	"Melaleuca societatis"
470	"Leaf blade in lateral view recurved to straight; hypanthium hairy, the hairs evenly distributed on the outer wall"	"Melaleuca concinna"
471	"Leaves 2-3.3 mm long"	"Melaleuca seriata"
471	"Leaves 3.5-21 mm long"	472
472	"Leaf blade verruculose, often channeled on the adaxial surface (the blade greenish or brownish, never silvery, greyish, or glaucous)"	"Melaleuca scabra"
472	"Leaf blade smooth (rarely verruculose or finely so), not channeled on the adaxial surface (the blade greenish, brownish, greyish, silvery, or glaucous)"	473
473	"Leaves 3.5-8.5 mm long, petiole 0.5-1.3 mm long"	"Melaleuca societatis"
473	"Leaves 5-19.5 mm long, petiole not more than 0.5 mm long"	"Melaleuca rigidifolia"
474	"Leaf blade glabrous"	475
474	"Leaf blade glabrescent or hairy"	477
475	"Leaf blade verruculose, often channelled on the adaxial surface"	"Melaleuca scabra"
475	"Leaf blade smooth, not channelled on the adaxial surface"	476
476	"Infructescence usually subtended by persistent leaf bases"	"Melaleuca trichophylla"
476	"Infructescence not subtended by persistent leaf bases"	"Melaleuca clavifolia"
477	"Leaf blade in transverse section circular, subcircular, depressed obovate, transversely elliptic, or transversely narrowly elliptic"	"Melaleuca trichophylla"
477	"Leaf blade in transverse section transversely linear, sublunate, lunate, or transversely semielliptic"	478
478	"Leaf blade usually elliptic (sometimes narrowly elliptic or narrowly obovate); majority of leaves on the specimen 2-2.8 times as long as wide (range 1.5-4.8)"	"Melaleuca amydra"
478	"Leaf blade usually narrowly obovate to very narrowly obovate (sometimes obovate, linear-obovate, narrowly elliptic, or elliptic); majority of leaves on the specimen 2.5-5 times as long as wide (range 2-7.5)"	"Melaleuca seriata"
478	"Leaf blade usually obovate (occasionally elliptic, rarely obovate); majority of leaves on the specimen 1.6-1.8 times as long as wide (range 1-2.2)"	"Melaleuca ryeae"
479	"Inflorescence axis sericeous"	"Melaleuca papillosa"
479	"Inflorescence axis pubescent"	480
480	"Hypanthium indumentum composed of distinctly matted hairs (these may be sericeous, lanuginulose-sericeous, or sericeous-pubescent)"	"Melaleuca stramentosa"
480	"Hypanthium, if hairy, with the indumentum composed of non-matted hairs"	481
481	"Calyx lobes hairy on the abaxial surface"	482
481	"Calyx lobes glabrous on the abaxial surface"	491
482	"Branchlet indumentum composed of sericeous hairs"	483
482	"Branchlet indumentum composed of pubescent or puberulous hairs, or with lanuginose, lanuginose-pubescent or lanuginulose hairs"	485
483	"Stamens 4-5 per bundle"	"Melaleuca similis"
483	"Stamens 6-10 per bundle"	484
484	"Style 7.5-8 mm long; leaf blade in transverse section usually sublunate or transversely linear, or transversely semielliptic to shallowy lunate"	"Melaleuca sapientes"
484	"Style 11-13 mm long; leaf blade in transverse section usually quadrate to broadly oblong, or subcircular to transversely elliptic"	"Melaleuca idana"
485	"Leaf blade elliptic (if ever narrowly elliptic or narrowly obovate then the leaf blade in transverse section transversely linear, sublunate or lunate)"	"Melaleuca amydra"
485	"Leaf blade usually linear, linear-obovate, narrowly oblong (the leaf blade in transverse section never transversely linear, sublunate or lunate)"	486
486	"Style 6.5-8 mm long; bracts subtending the inflorescence usually ""fluffy"" in appearance"	"Melaleuca plumea"
486	"Style 9.5-18 mm long; bracts subtending the inflorescence, if present, never ""fluffy"" in appearance"	487
487	"Leaf blade with the indumentum composed of pubescent hairs (these usually longish but sometimes with some shorter hairs present also, but despite this the hairs effectively are monomorphic)"	488
487	"Leaf blade with the indumentum composed of a layer of short pubescent hairs overtopped by (often sparser) long pubescent hairs (the hairs are distinctly dimorphic)"	490
488	"Branchlet indumentum two-layered (with a dense layer of puberulous to shortly pubescent hairs overtopped by sparser long pubescent hairs)"	"Melaleuca urceolaris"
488	"Branchlet indumentum one-layered (with short grading to long pubescent hairs, or with lanuginose to lanuginose-pubescent hairs that contrast strongly with the long pubescent leaf hairs)"	489
489	"Branchlet indumentum composed of short grading to long pubescent hairs; buds never rostrate"	"Melaleuca trichophylla"
489	"Branchlet indumentum composed of lanuginose to lanuginose-pubescent hairs that often contrast strongly with the long pubescent leaf hairs; buds often rostrate (due to the long acuminate calyx lobe apices)"	"Melaleuca psammophila"
490	"Leaves 4.8-10.5 mm long, the apex rounded to obtuse; calyx lobes 1-2.5 mm long; stamens 8-13 per bundle"	"Melaleuca beardii"
490	"Leaves 8-31 mm long, the apex acute, narrowly acute, shortly acuminate or obtuse; calyx lobes 0.5-1.5 mm long; stamens 5-10 per bundle"	"Melaleuca trichophylla"
491	"Leaf blade in transverse section transversely linear, sublunate, lunate, or transversely semielliptic"	492
491	"Leaf blade in transverse section subcircular, depressed obovate, semicircular, transversely semielliptic, or transversely narrowly elliptic (often the adaxial surface with two channels or the midrib region raised; if shallowly lunate then the fruit 4.8-6.5 mm long)"	494
492	"Leaf blade usually elliptic (sometimes narrowly elliptic or narrowly obovate; majority of leaves on the specimen 2-2.8 times as long as wide (range 1.5-4.8))"	"Melaleuca amydra"
492	"Leaf blade usually narrowly obovate to very narrowly obovate (sometimes obovate, linear-obovate, narrowly elliptic, or elliptic; leaves 2-7.5 times as long as wide (in M. seriata the majority of leaves on the specimen 2.5-5 times as long as wide))"	493
493	"Stamens 5-8 per bundle; style 8.5-10 mm long"	"Melaleuca seriata"
493	"Stamens 8-13 per bundle; style 10-13 mm long"	"Melaleuca zonalis"
494	"Leaves 2-8(-10.5) mm long"	495
494	"Leaves 9-26 mm long"	499
495	"Leaf blade glabrous (rarely with an occasional hair; fruit 2.5-3 mm long)"	"Melaleuca seriata"
495	"Leaf blade glabrescent (distinctly hairy when young, some hairs usually persisting; fruit 2.5-6.5 mm long)"	496
496	"Calyx lobes at the apex acuminate to long acuminate, the flower buds usually rostrate due to the acuminate sepal apex"	"Melaleuca psammophila"
496	"Calyx lobes not acuminate to long acuminate at the apex, the flower buds not rostrate"	497
497	"Stamens 3-7 per bundle (style 6.5-10.5 mm long; fruit 2.5-4 mm long)"	"Melaleuca subtrigona"
497	"Stamens 6-13 per bundle (style 10-15 mm long; fruit (3-)4.8-6.5 mm long"	498
498	"Leaf blade in transverse section transversely semielliptic or shallowly lunate, the blade often channelled"	"Melaleuca bisulcata"
498	"Leaf blade in transverse section depressed obovate, transversely elliptic or subcircular, the blade not channelled"	"Melaleuca beardii"
499	"Style 6.5-10.5 mm long"	"Melaleuca subtrigona"
499	"Style 12.5-18 mm long"	"Melaleuca trichophylla"
500	"Petals caducous (rarely deciduous and if so then plant having the following combination of characters: leaves more than 24 mm long; basic floral unit a monad; hypanthium 1.1-1.5 mm long; calyx lobes non-costate, triangular, 0.7-0.9 mm long)"	501
500	"Petals deciduous (if basic floral unit is a monad then plant not having the following combination of characters: leaves more than 24 mm long; hypanthium 1.1-1.5 mm long; calyx lobes non-costate, triangular, 0.7-0.9 mm long)"	514
501	"Staminal filaments white, cream, or yellow (sometimes ageing reddish)"	502
501	"Staminal filaments pink, mauve, magenta, or purple (often ageing whitish)"	506
502	"Flowers in monads or dyads"	503
502	"Flowers in triads"	504
503	"Flowers in monads"	"Melaleuca citrolens"
503	"Flowers in dyads"	"Melaleuca alsophila"
504	"Leaves 3-veined; calyx glabrous on the abaxial surface, usually unlobed (calyx then an unbroken ring of tissue) but sometimes variously partitioned into up to 5 or so lobes"	"Melaleuca ciliosa"
504	"Leaves 5-7-veined; calyx puberulous to pubescent on the abaxial surface, the lobes usually 5 or sometimes 4"	505
505	"Leaves 3.5-6.6 mm long, the apex obtuse to rounded (rarely acute to broadly acute)"	"Melaleuca huttensis"
505	"Leaves 9.5-34 mm long, the apex acuminate"	"Melaleuca oldfieldii"
506	"Leaves subcircular, broadly ovate, transversely broadly elliptic, broadly elliptic, elliptic, or occasionally broadly obovate, 0.7-2.2 times as long as wide"	"Melaleuca orbicularis"
506	"Leaves obovate, narrowly obovate, broadly obovate, linear, linear-obovate, narrowly elliptic, linear-elliptic, or elliptic, (1.6-)2.4-17.9 times as long as wide"	507
507	"Infructescence typically globose or subglobose (the constituent fruits closely packed (often into a ball-like structure) and not retaining a significant separate identity)"	508
507	"Infructescence not globose or subglobose (the constituent fruits ""peg-like"" and retaining a significant separate identity)"	513
508	"Leaf blade remaining hairy (distinctly so with the indumentum composed of dense, sericeous hairs becoming sericeous-pubescent to pubescent proximally)"	"Melaleuca venusta"
508	"Leaf blade glabrescent"	509
509	"Branchlet indumentum composed of spreading-ascending to spreading pubescent hairs"	"Melaleuca keigheryi"
509	"Branchlet indumentum composed of appressed sericeous hairs, sometimes the hairs ascending to spreading and sericeous-pubescent to pubescent (mature leaf blade then having a groove or channel on the abaxial surface)"	510
510	"Mature leaf blade with a deep groove or channel on the abaxial surface"	"Melaleuca pentagona"
510	"Mature leaf blade without grooves or channels on the abaxial surface (rarely the midrib impressed)"	511
511	"Calyx not distinctly differentiated into 5 lobes, usually an unbroken ring of tissue"	"Melaleuca campanae"
511	"Calyx distinctly differentiated into 5 lobes"	512
512	"Hypanthium hairy; calyx lobes 0.6-0.8 mm long;style 10-11 mm long"	"Melaleuca eulobata"
512	"Hypanthium glabrous or hairy (rarely hairy throughout, more often scattered hairs present at the base); calyx lobes 0.3-0.6 mm long; style 6.5-c.8 mm long"	"Melaleuca pentagona"
513	"Leaf blade indumentum usually more or less persistent, composed of appressed to ascending more or less sericeous hairs (rarely of spreading pubescent hairs)"	"Melaleuca leptospermoides"
513	"Leaf blade indumentum not persistent (the blade may sometimes be glabrous), composed of ascending to (mostly) spreading hairs"	"Melaleuca tuberculata"
514	"Staminal filaments at anthesis white, cream, yellow, or green, sometimes ageing reddish"	515
514	"Staminal filaments at anthesis pink, mauve, or purplish, often ageing whitish"	548
515	"Flowers in monads"	516
515	"Flowers in triads"	526
516	"Leaves 24-90 mm long"	"Melaleuca citrolens"
516	"Leaves up to 25 mm long"	517
517	"Style 2-5.9 mm long"	518
517	"Style 7-13 mm long"	519
518	"Inflorescence 1-3-flowered (usually 1)"	"Melaleuca podiocarpa"
518	"Inflorescence 15-37-flowered"	"Melaleuca densa"
519	"Calyx lobes deciduous and in fruit not replaced by sepaline teeth"	"Melaleuca leiocarpa"
519	"Calyx lobes persisting in fruit or replaced by sepaline teeth"	520
520	"Calyx lobes costate"	521
520	"Calyx lobes not costate"	524
521	"Hypanthium glabrous"	522
521	"Hypanthium hairy"	523
522	"Leaf blade with indumentum composed of long cilia on the margin (the lamina per se is glabrous), glabrescent"	"Melaleuca undulata"
522	"Leaf blade with indumentum composed of sericeous or sericeous-lanuginulous hairs (sometimes with some lanuginulose-puberulous or lanuginulose hairs also), glabrescent"	"Melaleuca lateriflora"
523	"Petals with oil glands; leaf blade usually with distinct oil glands; ovules 15-30 per locule"	"Melaleuca undulata"
523	"Petals without oil glands; leaf blade usually with obscure oil glands; ovules 38-44 per locule"	"Melaleuca coronicarpa"
524	"Leaves sessile, apex acuminate to narrowly acuminate, pungent"	"Melaleuca coronicarpa"
524	"Leaves with petiole to at least 0.4 mm long, apex rounded, or acuminate, not pungent"	525
525	"Leaf apex rounded to obtuse, leaf blade lunate in transverse section"	"Melaleuca eurystoma"
525	"Leaf apex acute to (rarely) acuminate, leaf blade transversely linear in transverse section"	"Melaleuca ringens"
526	"Leaf blade with the oil glands scattered"	527
526	"Leaf blade with the oil glands more or less in rows"	543
527	"Leaf blade 3-veined"	528
527	"Leaf blade 5-11 veined"	537
528	"Petiole less than 3 mm long"	529
528	"Petiole more than 3 mm long (up to 20 mm long)"	536
529	"Leaf blade usually obovate to broadly obovate, 1.2-3.3 times as long as wide"	"Melaleuca megacephala"
529	"Leaf blade usually very narrowly obovate, narrowly obovate, linear-obovate, or very narrowly elliptic"	530
530	"Calyx lobes hairy on the abaxial surface"	531
530	"Calyx lobes glabrous on the abaxial surface"	533
531	"Branchlet indumentum composed of sericeous to sericeous-pubescent hairs; cotyledons subobvolute (almost planoconvex)"	"Melaleuca sericea"
531	"Branchlet indumentum composed of pubescent to puberulous hairs (rarely of sericeous to sericeous-pubescent hairs); cotyledons obvolute"	532
532	"Fruit 1.5-2.5 mm long; staminal filaments 4-6.6 mm long, 4-13 per bundle; leaves 11.5-78 mm long"	"Melaleuca glomerata"
532	"Fruit 4.5-6.5 mm long; staminal filaments 7.3-10.8 mm long, 8-14 per bundle (mostly 11-14); leaves 7.5-16 mm long"	"Melaleuca leiopyxis"
533	"Infructescence typically globose or subglobose (the constituent fruits closely packed (often into a ball-like structure) and not retaining a significant separate identity)"	534
533	"Infructescence not globose or subglobose (the constituent fruits ""peg-like"" and retaining a significant separate identity)"	535
534	"Leaf apex straight"	"Melaleuca nodosa"
534	"Leaf apex recurved (may appear incurved due to twisting of the blade)"	"Melaleuca uncinata"
535	"Hypanthium 1.2-1.8 mm long; calyx lobes 2-5 (calyx variously divided into lobes)"	"Melaleuca zonalis"
535	"Hypanthium 2-3 mm long; calyx lobes 5"	"Melaleuca leiopyxis"
536	"Staminal filaments up to 8 mm long"	"Melaleuca saligna"
536	"Staminal filaments more than 18 mm long"	"Melaleuca triumphalis"
537	"Calyx 2-5-lobed (mostly 2-4-lobed); leaf blade margin verruculose, minutely crenulate, or rarely entire"	"Melaleuca megacephala"
537	"Calyx 5-lobed (consistently so); leaf blade margin entire"	538
538	"Calyx lobes herbaceous in the proximal-central zone and scarious in a broadish marginal band (northern Australia)"	539
538	"Calyx lobes scarious throughout or rarely herbaceous in the proximal-central zone and scarious in a broadish marginal band (southwestern Australia)"	542
539	"Leaf blade with the absolute (mucronate) apex recurved"	"Melaleuca acacioides"
539	"Leaf blade with the absolute apex straight"	540
540	"Leaf blade with the apex usually obtuse, sometimes acute, rounded, obtusely shortly acuminate or retuse"	"Melaleuca arcana"
540	"Leaf blade with the apex acuminate, narrowly acute or acute"	541
541	"Petiole 0.7-2.2 mm long; inflorescence axis sericeous to sericeous-pubescent"	"Melaleuca sericea"
541	"Petiole 3-20 mm long; inflorescence axis pubescent (to almost sericeous-pubescent)"	"Melaleuca saligna"
542	"Leaf blade 5-veined"	"Melaleuca croxfordiae"
542	"Leaf blade 7-11-veined"	"Melaleuca globifera"
543	"Leaf blade 3-veined"	544
543	"Leaf blade 5-11-veined"	546
544	"Stamens 4-7 per bundle; calyx lobes 0.2-0.4 mm long"	"Melaleuca nodosa"
544	"Stamens 8-13 per bundle; calyx lobes 0.6-2 mm long"	545
545	"Leaf blade narrowly obovate, very narrowly obovate, or narrowly elliptic; leaves 8.5-30.5 mm long; petal oil glands elliptic, subcircular, or rarely circular"	"Melaleuca zonalis"
545	"Leaf blade usually elliptic to narrowly elliptic, sometimes narrowly obovate, very narrowly obovate, or broadly elliptic; leaves 6.4-12.5 mm long; petal oil glands linear, elliptic, or sometimes subcircular"	"Melaleuca depressa"
545	"Leaf blade obovate or elliptic; leaves 4.5-8.5 mm long; petal oil glands subcircular to circular"	"Melaleuca lara"
546	"Leaves more than 36 mm long"	"Melaleuca globifera"
546	"Leaves up to 24 mm long"	547
547	"Calyx lobes hairy on the abaxial surface; stamens 9-13 per bundle"	"Melaleuca depressa"
547	"Calyx lobes glabrous on the abaxial surface; stamens 5-8 per bundle"	"Melaleuca hnatiukii"
548	"Style up to 6 mm long"	549
548	"Style more than 6 mm long"	550
549	"Calyx lobes hairy on the abaxial surface; stamens 4-7 per bundle; leaf blade with the margin subentire to verrucose"	"Melaleuca sclerophylla"
549	"Calyx lobes glabrous on the abaxial surface; stamens 3-4 per bundle (usually 3); leaf blade with the margin entire"	"Melaleuca polycephala"
550	"Hypanthium glabrous"	"Melaleuca nesophila"
550	"Hypanthium hairy"	551
551	"Calyx lobes scarious throughout"	552
551	"Calyx lobes herbaceous in the proximal-central zone and scarious in a broadish marginal band"	553
552	"Leaves 3-9 mm long"	"Melaleuca ryeae"
552	"Leaves 24-46 mm long"	"Melaleuca glena"
553	"Petals hairy on the lamina (the margin ciliate); hypanthium 2.5-3.5 mm long, 3-4.5 mm wide"	"Melaleuca fabri"
553	"Petals glabrous on the lamina (the margin ciliate or not); hypanthium 1.5-2.5 mm long, 1.7-3 mm wide"	554
554	"Leaf blade usually 3-parallel-veined with 7-11 pinnate veins on each side of the middle vein (sometimes with a few additional parallel veins present and then with fewer pinnate veins, rarely the venation consists only of parallel veins)"	"Melaleuca barlowii"
554	"Leaf blade 5-9-parallel-veined"	555
555	"Leaf blade broadly ovate to ovate"	"Melaleuca cordata"
555	"Leaf blade narrowly obovate, oblong, narrowly elliptic, elliptic, obovate, or rarely ovate"	556
556	"Branchlets and leaves glabrescent; inflorescences usually pseudoterminal (occasionally some are lateral in the distal leaf axils)"	"Melaleuca conothamnoides"
556	"Branchlets and leaves glabrous; inflorescences usually lateral and often below the leaves (occasionally some are pseudoterminal)"	"Melaleuca glena"
557	"Staminal filaments more than 12 mm long"	"Melaleuca longistaminea"
557	"Staminal filaments less than 12 mm long"	558
558	"Stamens more than 30 per bundle"	"Melaleuca cardiophylla"
558	"Stamens fewer than 20 per bundle"	559
559	"Branchlets not impressed adjacent to each leaf blade; calyx lobes not costate"	"Melaleuca cucullata"
559	"Branchlets impressed (""excavated"") adjacent to each leaf blade; calyx lobes costate (sometimes indistinctly so)"	560
560	"Leaf blade in transverse section transversely linear"	"Melaleuca irbyana"
560	"Leaf blade in transverse section otherwise (strongly lunate, lunate, shallowly lunate, crescentic, strongly depressed obtriangular, broadly obtriangular, transversely semielliptic, depressed obovate)"	561
561	"Stamens 1-seriate"	562
561	"Stamens 2-seriate"	563
562	"Leaf blade generally obovate (broadly angular-obovate, depressed angular-obovate, broadly obovate, or angular-obovate); staminal filaments white"	"Melaleuca thyoides"
562	"Leaf blade generally ovate (narrowly ovate, ovate, very narrowly ovate); staminal filaments pink or mauve (fading to white)"	"Melaleuca pallescens"
563	"Flowers in triads, the flowers more or less arranged in a triangle (the central flower distinctly displaced towards the shoot apex)"	"Melaleuca huegelii"
563	"Flowers in triads or monads, the flowers of the triads more or less in a row (the central flower very slightly displaced towards the shoot apex)"	564
564	"Staminal filaments 4.5-5 mm long; ovules c. 5-8 per locule"	"Melaleuca nanophylla"
564	"Staminal filaments 5.8-7.6 mm long; ovules 25-35 per locule"	"Melaleuca tamariscina"