Melaleuca uncinata

Erect broom-like shrub to 3 m high; bark papery on old stems. Leaves sessile or subsessile, terete, rarely slightly flattened, c. 1.5–5.0 cm long, c. 1 mm wide, tip narrowly acute, recurved, glands usually present. Inflorescence a dense, shortly pedunculate, globoid or obloid head, c. 1–2 cm long; axis hairy, growing on into a leafy shoot. Flowers in triads; stamens 4–8 per bundle, white to yellow, claw c. 2 mm long, free part of filaments c. 3–4 mm long. Capsules c. 3 mm wide, aggregated into dense globular clusters. Flowers mostly in spring.