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Showing Melaleuca lanceolata
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Type: (not cited).
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Comment: nom. illeg., non Otto (1820).
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Lectotype: "...R. BROWN Iter Australiense 1802–05 No. 4675..."
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Type: "R. Brown 4675 (MEL, K)"
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Comment: "R. T. Baker, Proc. Linn. Soc. N.S.W. 38: 601 (March 1914) stated that 'M. lanceolata has leaves under 1 inch long, a white woolly inflorescence, and a constant trinerved venation'. This remark must be accepted as constituting valid publication of the name."
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Type: New South Wales: Port Jackson, behind the Government House, 1803, Brown [4675] (K, lecto; E, MEL, CANB, isolecto).