Eucalyptus brevifolia
| Snappy white gum | |
|---|---|
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Eudicots |
| Clade: | Rosids |
| Order: | Myrtales |
| Family: | Myrtaceae |
| Genus: | Eucalyptus |
| Species: | E. brevifolia |
| Binomial name | |
| Eucalyptus brevifolia F.Muell. | |
Eucalyptus brevifolia, commonly known as snappy white gum or the northern white gum,[1] is a mallee that is native to northern Australia.[2]
The tree typically grows to a height of 3 to 8 metres (10 to 26 ft) and has smooth bark. It blooms between March and August and produces white-cream-yellow flowers.[2] The tree has a lignotuber and powdery white bark that ages to a grey-pink colour. The Adult leaves are alternate and concolorous, dull, blue-grey to glaucous. The leaf blades are lanceolate to broadly lanceolate to occasionally ovate in shape and about 5 to 11 centimetres (2.0 to 4.3 in) in length and 0.9 to 2.8 cm (0.35 to 1.10 in) wide with the base tapering to petiole or rounded and a pointed apex supported in petioles that are 0.8 to 2.5 cm (0.31 to 0.98 in) long.[3] The buds are glaucous, obovoid to ovoid to pear-shaped and approximately {{convert|0.6|to|1.1|cm|in|2|abbr=on} in length and {{convert|0.4|to|0.8|cm|in|2|abbr=on} wide. The fruits that form are sessile to shortly pedicellate and barrel-shaped to hemispherical containing dark brown to yellowy-brown seeds.[3]
The species on slopes and rocky hill tops is found in the Kimberley region of Western Australia extending into the Northern Territory between the Victoria River and the northern Tanami Desert where it grows in shallow skeletal soils.[2][3]
See also
References
- ↑ Philip A. Clarke (2012). Australian plants as Aboriginal Tools. Rosenberg Publishing. ISBN 9781922013576.
- 1 2 3 "Eucalyptus brevifolia". FloraBase. Western Australian Government Department of Parks and Wildlife.
- 1 2 3 "Eucalyptus brevifolia F.Muell.". NT Flora. Northern Territory Government. Retrieved 20 July 2017.