Eucalyptus astringens

Brown mallet
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Rosids
Order: Myrtales
Family: Myrtaceae
Genus: Eucalyptus
Species: E. astringens
Binomial name
Eucalyptus astringens
Maiden

Eucalyptus astringens, commonly known as brown mallet, is a tree that is endemic to the South West region of Western Australia.[1]

The Noongar peoples know the tree as Mallat, Woonert or Wurnert.[2]

The tree typically grows to a height of 1.5 to 15 metres (5 to 49 ft) and can get to 24 m (79 ft) tall. It has smooth grey-brown coloured bark that peels from the trunk and branches. It blooms from August to December and produces white cream to yellow flowers. Commonly found on rocky outcrops, ridges, breakaways, hills and on valley floors in the southern Wheatbelt, Great Southern and south west Goldfields-Esperance regions of Western Australia. It grows in red-brown gravelly clay, brown clayey sand, sandy loam, spongolite, laterite and sandstone based soils.

It is commonly associated with E. wandoo making up the overstorey, especially when E. wandoo woodland is an adjacent community. Understorey species often include occasional Santalum acuminatum and Melaleuca scalena, and a sparse ground cover of common grasses and herbs such as Thysanotus patersonii, Trachymene pilosa, Pterostylis sanguineus, Austrostipa elegantissima, Austrodanthonia setacea group and Lomandra micrantha subsp. micrantha.[3]

There are two subspecies:

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Eucalyptus astringens". FloraBase. Western Australian Government Department of Parks and Wildlife.
  2. ↑ "Noongar names for plants". kippleonline.net. Retrieved 20 November 2016.
  3. ↑ "Eucalyptus astringens (brown mallet) woodland". Wheatbelt woodlands. Retrieved 13 November 2016.
  4. ↑ "Eucalyptus astringens subsp. redacta". FloraBase. Western Australian Government Department of Parks and Wildlife.
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