Editing Callistemon (section)

{{Short description|Genus of flowering plants}}
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|authority = [[Robert Brown (Scottish botanist from Montrose)|R.Br.]]<ref name=GRIN>{{Cite web |url=http://www.ars-grin.gov/cgi-bin/npgs/html/genus.pl?1901 |title=Genus: ''Callistemon'' R. Br. |work=Germplasm Resources Information Network |publisher=United States Department of Agriculture |date=2009-01-27 |access-date=2010-04-21 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090523002639/http://www.ars-grin.gov/cgi-bin/npgs/html/genus.pl?1901 |archive-date=2009-05-23 |url-status=dead }}</ref>
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'''''Callistemon''''' {{IPAc-en|ˌ|k|æ|l|ᵻ|ˈ|s|t|iː|m|ən}}<ref>''Sunset Western Garden Book,'' 1995:606–607</ref> is a [[genus]] of [[shrub]]s in the family [[Myrtaceae]], first described as a genus in 1814.<ref>Brown, Robert. 1814. Voyage to Terra Australis 2(App. 3): 547</ref> The entire genus is [[Endemism|endemic]] to [[Australia]] but widely cultivated in many other regions and naturalised in scattered locations.<ref name=KWCSP>[http://apps.kew.org/wcsp/namedetail.do?name_id=31406 Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families]</ref> Their status as a separate taxon is in doubt, some authorities accepting that the difference between callistemons and [[melaleuca]]s is not sufficient for them to be grouped in a separate genus.