Vascular Plants Australian Plant Name Index (APNI)

Showing Callistemon hortensis
Myrtaceae Juss.
Callistemon hortensis Cheel , legitimate, scientific
Cheel, E. (1943), Descriptions of new species of Callistemon. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 68(5-6): 184 [tax. nov.]
  • Type: "The original plants were raised from seeds received from Berlin, Germany, in 1913, labelled Callistemon amoenus Lemaire, and were sown in May of that year. Several plants were distributed but the only plant that survived was one plant at Ashfield, which flowered in October, 1917."
Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2010), Australian Plant Census: - APC [secondary reference]
  • APC Comment: A taxon of probable hybrid origin with Melaleuca citrina in its parentage (L.A.Craven, pers. comm., 2009).