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|accepted_name=Chamelaucium
|accepted_authority=Desfontaines
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Mém. Mus. Hist. Nat.
|place=5: 39, plate 3, fig. B, plate 4. 1819
|year=1819
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|common_names=Waxflower
|basionyms=
|synonyms=
|hierarchy=Myrtaceae;Chamelaucium
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Myrtaceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Chamelaucium]]</div></div>
|etymology=Derivation uncertain; possibly Greek chamai, dwarf, and lauchis, poplar, alluding to flower; or kamelaukion, headdress of medieval Popes, alluding to form of calyptra
|volume=Volume 10
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--><span class="statement" id="st-d0_s0" data-properties="shrub pubescence"><b>Shrubs,</b> glabrous.</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s1" data-properties="leaf arrangement"><b>Leaves </b>decussate;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s2" data-properties="blade prominence">blade venation inconspicuous.</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s3" data-properties="inflorescence architecture;inflorescence position;flower architecture or arrangement or growth form"><b>Inflorescences </b>1-flowered, axillary, flowers solitary in corymbose clusters.</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s4" data-properties="flower architecture;flower architecture;flower architecture"><b>Flowers </b>5-merous, sessile or pedicellate;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s5" data-properties="hypanthium shape;hypanthium shape;hypanthium shape;hypanthium length;hypanthium shape">hypanthium obconic to cylindric-obconic, prolonged and bowl-like beyond ovary summit;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s6" data-properties="perianth part fusion">perianth parts distinct;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s7" data-properties="petal coloration;petal coloration;petal coloration;petal coloration;petal coloration">petals white, pink, or purple, [yellow];</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s8" data-properties="stamen quantity;stamen variability;staminode presence">stamens ca. 10, about as long as perianth, equal number of staminodes sometimes present;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s9" data-properties="ovary architecture or structure in adjective form">ovary 1-locular;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s10" data-properties="style variability;style length or size">style equal to or longer than stamens, with a ring of hairs just below stigma;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s11" data-properties="ovule quantity">ovules 4–8.</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s12" data-properties="fruit architecture or shape"><b>Fruits </b>nutlike.</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s13" data-properties=""><b>Seed </b>1, winged or not.</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s14" data-properties="seed quantity;seed architecture;seed architecture;x chromosome quantity">x = 11.</span><!--

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|distribution=California;Australia
|introduced=true
|discussion=<p>Species ca. 13 (1 in the flora).</p>
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name=Chamelaucium
|author=Leslie R. Landrum
|authority=Desfontaines
|rank=genus
|parent rank=family
|synonyms=
|basionyms=
|family=Myrtaceae
|distribution=California;Australia
|introduced=true
|reference=None
|publication title=Mém. Mus. Hist. Nat.
|publication year=1819
|special status=
|source xml=
|genus=Chamelaucium
|blade prominence=inconspicuous
|flower architecture=pedicellate;sessile;5-merous
|flower architecture or arrangement or growth form=solitary
|fruit architecture or shape=nutlike
|hypanthium length=prolonged
|hypanthium shape=bowl-like;obconic;cylindric-obconic
|inflorescence architecture=1-flowered
|inflorescence position=axillary
|leaf arrangement=decussate
|ovary architecture or structure in adjective form=1-locular
|ovule quantity=4;8
|perianth part fusion=distinct
|petal coloration=purple;pink;purple;pink;white
|seed architecture=not;winged
|seed quantity=1
|shrub pubescence=glabrous
|stamen quantity=10
|stamen variability=equal
|staminode presence=absent
|style length or size=longer
|style variability=equal
|x chromosome quantity=11
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