Melaleuca polandii (F. M. Bailey) Craven, Novon 16: 473. 2006; Callistemon polandii F.M. Bailey, Queensl. Fl. 6: 2003. 1902.

Shrubs, up to 4 m high; bark brown, vertically striated; branches generally pendent, young shoots and inflorescences silky tomentose. Leaves alternate, simple, exstipulate, crowded towards tips of branchlets, when young silky and tomentose; petiole 2-3 mm long, flattened, villous, especially when young; lamina lanceolate to lanceolate-elliptic, 5-7 cm x 1.2-2.0 cm, narrowed at both the ends, margin entire, apex acute and sharply pointed, rigid, midvein conspicuous, lateral veins faint, more or less distinctly pinnate, lamina gland-dotted. Flowers ebracteate, bisexual, actinomorphic, sessile or subsessile, 2-2.5 cm long (including stamens) in terminal spikes; spikes 8-11 cm long and 4-5 cm in diameter, the branches soon growing through spikes. Few terminal flowers of spike in axils of bracts, bracts leaf-like, smaller and narrower than leaves, lanceolate. Hypanthium (calyx tube) ca. 4 mm x 3 mm, adnate to ovary, tubular-campanulate, gland-dotted; calyx lobes 5, 3 mm x 2 mm, more or less orbicular or broadly ovoid, obtuse, brownish, margin ciliate. Petals 5, free, inserted on rim of hypanthium alternating with calyx lobes, ca. 4 mm x 2.5 mm, suborbicular, pale green, concave, obtuse, gland-dotted, caducous. Stamens numerous, 35-50, monoadelphous, filaments connate into a ring at base and shed as a unit, 2-2.5 cm long; filaments bright red, exserted; anthers very small, ca. 0.5 mm long, oblong, golden yellow, versatile. Ovary inferior, 2-locular, ovules many, placentation axile; style terminal, red, up to 2.3 cm long; stigma simple.

Fruits woody capsules, 4.5-6.5 mm long. (Fruits not observed)

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