World Checklist of Selected Plant Families: Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew

Metrosideros citrina Curtis, Bot. Mag. 8: t. 260 (1794).

This name is a synonym.

Homotypic Names:
Accepted Name:	Melaleuca citrina (Curtis) Dum.Cours., Bot. Cult. 3: 282 (1802).
Family:	Myrtaceae
Metrosideros lanceolata Sm., Trans. Linn. Soc. London 3: 272 (1797), nom. superfl. Melaleuca citrina (Curtis) Dum.Cours., Bot. Cult. 3: 282 (1802). Callistemon lanceolatus Sweet, Hort. Brit.: 155 (1826), nom. superfl. Callistemon lanceolatus var. sparsus Regel, Index Seminum (LE, Petropolitanus) 1856: 39 (1856), nom. superfl. Callistemon citrinus (Curtis) Skeels, Bull. Bur. Pl. Industr. U.S.D.A. 282: 49 (1913).
Original Compiler:	R.Govaerts