Eucalyptus dolichocera
| Eucalyptus dolichocera | |
|---|---|
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| (unranked): | Angiosperms |
| (unranked): | Eudicots |
| (unranked): | Rosids |
| Order: | Myrtales |
| Family: | Myrtaceae |
| Genus: | Eucalyptus |
| Species: | E. dolichocera |
| Binomial name | |
| Eucalyptus dolichocera L.A.S.Johnson & K.D.Hill | |
Eucalyptus dolichocera is a eucalypt that is native to Western Australia.[1]
The mallee typically grows to a height of 6 metres (20 ft) and has rough and ribbony up half of the trunk. The bark is grey below to grey-brown or red-brown in colour above. The tree blooms between October and November[1] and produces simple axillary conflorescences with seven to eleven flowered umbellasters on peduncles that are narrowly flattened or angular. Buds are glaucous and rostrate or urceolate in shape with a calyptrate calyx that sheds early. Ovoid or urceolate shaped fruits with a depressed disc form later.[2]
The species is found in sanddunes, on flats and sandplains and has a range from just north of Geraldton in the Mid West then spreading south down through the Wheatbelt region. It grows in red sand and limestone and laterite soils.[1]
See also
References
- 1 2 3 "Eucalyptus dolichocera". FloraBase. Western Australian Government Department of Parks and Wildlife.
- ↑ "Eucalyptus dolichocera L.A.S. Johnson & K.D. Hill, Telopea 8(2): 196 (1999)". Eucalink. Royal Botanic Garden, Sydney. Retrieved 5 November 2016.