
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Barlow, BA 
A1  - Forrester, J 
T1  - Variation in Indumentum Morphology in the Melaleuca leucadendra Complex (Myrtaceae)
JF  - Brunonia
JO  - Brunonia
Y1  - 1984
VL  - 7
IS  - 2
SP  - 277
EP  - 288
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UR  - https://doi.org/10.1071/BRU9840277 
N2  - A light and scanning    electron microscope study of variation in leaf hairs in the Melaleuca leucadendra complex    is described as a precursor to a taxonomic revision. The indumentum is homogeneous    with respect to cellular structure, the hairs being simple, unicellular and unbranched.    Hairs of different lengths are produced, with shorter hairs possibly produced later than    the longer ones. The shorter hairs tend to be bent or crisped. There is diversity in the    degree of crisping of short hairs which appears to be genetically based and this attribute    is of some value as a diagnostic character. Two apparent geographical subspecies of M.    nervosa are distinguished by differences in crisping of the shorter hairs. However    similarities with hair patterns in other species suggest polyphylesis, and raise questions    of natural relationships between entities within the M. leucadendra complex. 
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