Melaleuca viminea subsp. viminea
Shrub or tree 0.5–14 m high; bark papery; branchlets glabrescent. Leaves subsessile to petiolate, alternate or ternate, linear, or narrow-ovate to narrow-obovate, 3–20 mm long, 0.6–2 mm wide, thick, acute to obtuse, often recurved, veins 3, usually obscure, oil glands obscure. Inflorescence a few- to many-flowered spike, 1–3.5 cm long, 1–2.5 cm wide; axis glabrous, growing on into a leafy shoot. Flowers 1 per bract; stamens 3–16 per bundle, pale yellow to white, claw 1.8–6 mm long, free part of filaments c. 3 mm long. Capsules 2–4 mm long, 3–5 mm wide, sepals usually persistent. Flowers Jul.–Nov.
GipP, OtP. Native to Western Australia. Recorded as sparingly established in Victoria near Anglesea, and Jan Juc.
Victorian records appear well placed in M. viminea subsp. viminea, leaves are mostly ascending rather than appressed (= subsp. appressa Barlow) or mostly spreading (= subsp. demissa Craven). Melaleuca viminea subsp. demissia may be further distinguished by the relatively longer stamens (up to 12 mm long c.f. 7 mm long in the other subspecies). However, this feature has not yet been observed from wild plants in Victoria.