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Taxon:  Melaleuca cajuputi Powell



Summary
Genus:
Melaleuca
Family:
Myrtaceae
Subfamily:
Myrtoideae
Tribe:
Melaleuceae
Nomen number:
23778
Place of publication:
Pharm. Lond. Transl. 22. 1809
Verified:
12/14/2004 ARS Systematic Botanists.
Accessions:
0 (0  active, 0  available) in National Plant Germplasm System. 
Other conspecific taxa
Autonyms (not in current use), synonyms and invalid designations
Heterotypic Synonym(s)
Melaleuca leucadendra auct. nonn.
Melaleuca minor Sm.
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Reference(s)
  1. Blake, S. T. 1968. A revision of Melaleuca leucadendron and its allies (Myrtaceae). Contr. Queensland Herb. 1:22-27.
  2. Craven, L. A. & B. J. Lepschi. 1999. Enumeration of the species and infraspecific taxa of Melaleuca (Myrtaceae) occurring in Australia and Tasmania. Austral. Syst. Bot. 12:865. http://www.publish.csiro.au/nid/151.htm
  3. Duke, J. A. et al. CRC Handbook of medicinal herbs. 2002
  4. Erhardt, W. et al. Zander: Handwörterbuch der Pflanzennamen, 17. Auflage. 2002 Note: = M. leucadendra
  5. Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO). 2010. Ecocrop (on-line resource). Note: http://ecocrop.fao.org/ecocrop/srv/en/cropListDetails?code=&relation=beginsWith&name=Melaleuca+cajuputi&quantity=1
  6. Groth, D. 2005. pers. comm. Note: re. Brazilian common names
  7. Huxley, A., ed. The new Royal Horticultural Society dictionary of gardening. 1992
  8. Integrated Botanical Information System (IBIS). Australian plant common name database (on-line resource). http://www.anbg.gov.au/common.names/
  9. McGuffin, M., J. T. Kartesz, A. Y. Leung, & A. O. Tucker. Herbs of commerce, ed. 2. 2000 Note: American Herbal Products Association, Silver Spring, MD
  10. Oyen, L. P. A. & Nguyen Xuan Dung, eds. 1999. Essential-oil plants. Plant Resources of South-East Asia (PROSEA). 1989- 19:126-131. http://proseanet.org
  11. Rehm, S. Multilingual dictionary of agronomic plants. 1994 Note: = M. leucadendra
  12. Smitinand, T. & K. Larsen, eds. Flora of Thailand. 1970-
  13. Turner, I. M. A catalogue of the vascular plants of Malaya. Gardens' Bull. Singapore vol. 47. 1995
  14. Wrigley, J. W. & M. Fagg. Bottlebrushes, paperbarks and tea trees. 1993 Note: Angus & Robertson, Australia
Common names
English
cajaput –
cajaput-tree –
cajeput –
cajuput –
paperbark teatree –
swamp teatree –
French
cajuputier –
German
Kajeputbaum –
Indonesian
kayu putih –
Portuguese
cajepute –
Distribution
order_codeStatusContinentSubcontinentCountryStateNote
1NativeAsia-TropicalIndo-ChinaCambodia  
1NativeAsia-TropicalIndo-ChinaMyanmar  
1NativeAsia-TropicalIndo-ChinaThailand  
1NativeAsia-TropicalIndo-ChinaVietnam  
1NativeAsia-TropicalMalesiaIndonesiaIrian Jaya 
1NativeAsia-TropicalMalesiaIndonesiaJava 
1NativeAsia-TropicalMalesiaIndonesiaKalimantan 
1NativeAsia-TropicalMalesiaIndonesiaMoluccas 
1NativeAsia-TropicalMalesiaIndonesiaSumatra 
1NativeAsia-TropicalMalesiaMalaysia  
1NativeAsia-TropicalMalesiaPapua New Guinea  
1NativeAustralasiaAustraliaAustraliaNorthern Territory 
1NativeAustralasiaAustraliaAustraliaQueenslandn.
1NativeAustralasiaAustraliaAustraliaWestern Australia 
2CultivatedAsia-TropicalMalesiaIndonesia  
2CultivatedAsia-TropicalMalesiaMalaysia  
6Other    exact native range obscure
Native
Asia-Tropical
  • INDO-CHINA: Cambodia, Myanmar, Thailand, Vietnam
  • MALESIA: Indonesia [Irian Jaya, Java, Kalimantan, Moluccas, Sumatra], Malaysia, Papua New Guinea
Australasia
  • AUSTRALIA: Australia [Queensland (n.), Western Australia, Northern Territory]
Cultivated
Asia-Tropical
  • MALESIA: Indonesia, Malaysia
Other (exact native range obscure)
Economic Uses
Bee plants
Environmental
ornamental (fide Dict Gard) –
Fuels
fuelwood (fide Pl Res SEAs 19:126. 1999) –
Materials
essential oils (source of cajeput oil fide Pl Res SEAs 19:126. 1999; Bottlebrush) –
Medicines
folklore (fide CRC MedHerbs ed2; Herbs Commerce ed2) –


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