Melaleuca diosmifolia

Stiff shrub 1.5–3 m high, glabrous except for young shoots and flowers; bark grey. Leaves alternate, crowded, spreading, elliptic, narrowly ovate or ovate, 4–13 mm long, 3–5 mm wide, flat, tip more or less blunt, oil glands obscure; veins 3–5; petiole c. 1–2 mm long. Inflorescence a cylindric spike c. 3–5 cm long, 2.5–4 cm wide; axis glabrous to glabrescent, growing on into a leafy shoot. Flowers 1 per bract; stamens 3–5 per bundle, green, claw 3–4.5 mm long, free parts of filaments c. 10–15.5 mm long. Capsules 5–8 mm long, 9–12 mm wide, papery, sepals usually persistent. Flowers Sep.–Nov.