Eucalyptus eudesmioides
| Mallalie | |
|---|---|
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| (unranked): | Angiosperms |
| (unranked): | Eudicots |
| (unranked): | Rosids |
| Order: | Myrtales |
| Family: | Myrtaceae |
| Genus: | Eucalyptus |
| Species: | E. eudesmioides |
| Binomial name | |
| Eucalyptus eudesmioides F. Muell. | |
Eucalyptus eudesmioides, commonly known as mallalie,[1] desert gum or mallabie[2] is a rounded, bushy, mallee eucalypt native to Western Australia. Mallalie is the Noongar name for the tree.[3]
Description
Mature trees are usually 2 to 8 metres (7 to 26 ft) high, occasionally up to 10 m (33 ft). It may flower from January to May producing white inflorescences.[1] The lower bark is dark grey, shedding in strips, while the upper bark is smooth, grey-brown or green-brown.[4] Adult leaves have a lanceolate shape and are basally tapered. The leaves are opposite, small, thin, dull, and concolorous. Petioles are narrowly flattened or channelled. The simple conflorescence is axillary with three-flowered umbellasters and quadrangular peduncles.[5] Stamens in four tufts; fruit with four small teeth.[4]
Distribution
Mallalie occurs coastally and subcoastally from 100 kilometres (62 mi) north of Perth northwards to the Murchison River.[4] The range extends from Carnarvon in the Gascoyne south to Wongan Hills in the Wheatbelt region of Western Australia.[1] It is one of the eucalypts identified in the Eurardy Reserve [6]
Classification
The species was first formally described by the botanist Ferdinand von Mueller as Eucalyptus eudesmoides in 1860 in the work Fragmenta Phytographiae Australiae, the name was later changed to Eucalyptus eudesmioides.[7]
There are three known subspecies:
- Eucalyptus eudesmioides subsp. eudesmioides
- Eucalyptus eudesmioides subsp. pallida
- Eucalyptus eudesmioides subsp. selachiana
See also
References
- 1 2 3 "Eucalyptus eudesmioides". FloraBase. Western Australian Government Department of Parks and Wildlife.
- ↑ Philip A. Clarke (2012). Australian plants as Aboriginal Tools. Rosenberg Publishing. ISBN 9781922013576.
- ↑ "Noongar names for plants". kippleonline.net. Retrieved 6 December 2016.
- 1 2 3 Chippendale, G.M. (1973). Eucalypts of the Western Australian goldfields (and the adjacent wheatbelt). AGPS: Canberra. ISBN 0-642-00064-6
- ↑ "A Web Guide to the Eucalypts Eucalyptus eudesmioides". Eucalink. Royal Botanic Garden, Sydney. Retrieved 29 April 2017.
- ↑ Eurardy Reserve was established as a bush heritage property in 2011
- ↑ "Eucalyptus eudesmoides F.Muell. (accepted name Eucalyptus eudesmioides)". Atlas of Living Australia. Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Retrieved 29 April 2017.