Melaleuca podiocarpa is a plant in the myrtle family, Myrtaceae and is endemic to the south-west of Western Australia.

[2][3] Melaleuca podiocarpa was first formally described in 1999 by Lyndley Craven in Australian Systematic Botany from a specimen collected on the Lake King to Norseman road.

[4][5] The specific epithet (podiocarpa) is derived from ancient Greek words podos meaning “foot” and karpos meaning "fruit" referring to the foot like base of the fruiting capsules.

[2] This melaleuca occurs in and between the Lake King and Grass Patch districts in the Mallee biogeographic region where it grows in sand, gravel or clay on plains.

[2][6][7] Melaleuca podiocarpa is listed as "not threatened" by the Government of Western Australia Department of Parks and Wildlife.