Eucalyptus corrugata
| Rough fruited mallee | |
|---|---|
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Eudicots |
| Clade: | Rosids |
| Order: | Myrtales |
| Family: | Myrtaceae |
| Genus: | Eucalyptus |
| Species: | E. corrugata |
| Binomial name | |
| Eucalyptus corrugata Luehm. | |
Eucalyptus corrugata, also known as rough fruited mallee, is a eucalypt that is native to Western Australia.[1]
The tree typically grows to a height of 4 to 15 metres (13 to 49 ft).[1] The white or grey and grey-brown or yellow bark is smooth throughout or persistent on the base whee it is fibrous-flaky with whitish patches. The adult leaves are disjunct, glossy, green, thick and concolorous. The blade has a narrow lanceolate or lanceolate to falcate shape that is basally tapered.[2] When the tree blooms between October and March[1] it forms a simple axillary conflorescence with three-flowered umbellasters and terete peduncles. Buds are clavate with calyptrate calyx that sheds early. Fruits form that are hemispherical with a depressed or flat disc and valves that are exserted.[2]
The species was first formally described by the botanist Johann George Luehmann in 1897 in the work Reliquiae Muellerianae: Descriptions of New Australian Plants in the Melbourne Herbarium. published in The Victorian Naturalist.[3]
It is distributed through a small are in the Goldfields-Esperance region of Western Australia south west of Kalgoorlie in scrubland whre it grows in rocky clay loam soils.[1]
See also
References
- 1 2 3 4 "Eucalyptus corrugata". FloraBase. Western Australian Government Department of Parks and Wildlife.
- 1 2 "Eucalyptus corrugata Luehm., Victorian Naturalist 13: 168 (1897)". Eucalink. CSIRO. 2002. Retrieved 31 October 2016.
- ↑ "Eucalyptus corrugata Luehm.". Atlas of Living Australia. Global Biodiversity Information Facility.