| Callistemon sieberi | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| (unranked): | Angiosperms |
| (unranked): | Eudicots |
| (unranked): | Rosids |
| Order: | Myrtales |
| Family: | Myrtaceae |
| Genus: | Callistemon |
| Species: | C. sieberi |
| Binomial name | |
| Callistemon sieberi DC.[1] |
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Callistemon sieberi (River Bottlebrush) is a shrub or small tree in the family Myrtaceae. It is native to Australia. The leaves are 20 to 50 mm long and 2 to 5 mm wide with pointed tips. Cream, pale yellow or pink flower spikes are mostly produced between November and January in the species native range.[1]
The species was first formally described by botanist Augustin Pyramus de Candolle in 1828 in Prodomus.[2]
In his 2006 paper, New Combinations in Melaleuca for Australian Species of Callistemon (Myrtaceae), Lyndley Craven, a research botanist from the Australian National Herbarium, proposed that this species should be renamed as Melaleuca paludicola.[2]