Melaleuca scabra, commonly known as rough honey-myrtle,[2] is a species of shrub that is endemic to a small area on the south coast of Western Australia.

Melaleuca scabra is a shrub that typically grows to about 1.2 m (3 ft 11 in) high and wide with glabrous branches, branchlets and leaves.

[5][6] The specific epithet (scabra) is from the Latin word scaber meaning "rough", "scurfy", "scabby" or "mangy".

[7] In Flora Australasica of 1828, Robert Sweet described this species as "a rare and beautiful plant" and "...its flowers are of a dark purple and produced in great abundance; the ends of all the young shoots being covered with them, they are there crowded in dense heads, so that they have scarcely room to expand, and are of a pleasant aromatic scent.

"[8] Rough honeymyrtle occurs in coastal areas of Western Australia between Hopetoun and Israelite Bay[2] in the Esperance Plains and Mallee biogeographic regions[9] growing in soils containing sand, clay or laterite.