A Web Guide to the Eucalypts
Habit: Tree, Height to 30 m high (often less).
Bark: Bark persistent throughout, stringy, grey to red-brown.
Branchlets green. Pith glands absent; Bark glands absent. Cotyledons reniform.
Leaves: Intermediate leaves disjunct early, broad lanceolate,
straight, entire, glossy green, petiolate, 12 cm long, 5 mm wide. Adult leaves
disjunct, lanceolate, falcate, acute or obtuse or apiculate, oblique, dull to
semi-glossy, green, thick, concolorous, 915 cm long, 1.22.7 mm wide;
Petioles narrowly flattened or channelled, Petioles 1017 mm long. Lateral
veins prominent, acute, moderately spaced.
Inflorescences: Conflorescence simple, axillary; Umbellasters
7-flowered to 11-flowered, regular. Peduncles terete, 715 mm long.
Pedicels terete, 28 mm long.
Flowers: Buds fusiform, not glaucous or pruinose, 79 mm long,
45 mm diam. Calyx calyptrate; persisting to anthesis. Calyptra conical or
elongate acute or rostrate, 2 times as long as hypanthium or 3 times as long as
hypanthium, as wide as hypanthium; smooth. Hypanthium smooth. Flowers white, or
Fruits: Fruits globose, pedicellate, 3 locular, 610 mm long,
712 mm diam. Disc raised. Valves exserted. Chaff cuboid, chaff same colour
Occurrence: Widespread and locally dominant; dry sclerophyll forest or
woodland on shallow poor soils on rises.
Distribution: S.A., or N.S.W., or Vic. N.S.W. regions Northern
Tablelands, or Central Tablelands, or Southern Tablelands, or North Western
Slopes, or Central Western Slopes, or South Western Slopes.