Corymbia torta

Corymbia torta
Scientific classification
Kingdom:Plantae
Clade:Angiosperms
Clade:Eudicots
Clade:Rosids
Order:Myrtales
Family:Myrtaceae
Genus:Corymbia
Species: C. torta
Binomial name
Corymbia torta

Corymbia torta is a bloodwood native to Western Australia[1]

The tree typically grows to a height of 12 to 15 metres (39 to 49 ft) and has smooth white bark that is shed from the tree in thin scales.[1] Adult leaves are disjunct, glossy, green to grey-green and concolorous they have a thin, linear to narrow lanceolate or lanceolate shape that is basally tapered. Petioles are narrowly flattened or channelled.[2]

It produces white flowers in May or November[1] and produces an axillary, compound or simple, conflorescence with irregular seven to eleven flowered umbellasters. Fruits that are cylindrical to ovoid and pedicellate containing red or red-brown seeds form later.[2]

The range of C. torta is confined to a part of the Kimberley region where it is found in the Central Kimberley and Northern Kimberley IBRA bioregions. It grows in skeletal sandy soils over sandstone or granite.[1]

There are three subspecies:

  • Corymbia torta subsp. allanii
  • Corymbia torta subsp. mixtifolia
  • Corymbia torta subsp. torta[3]

See also

List of Corymbia species

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 "Corymbia torta". FloraBase. Western Australian Government Department of Parks and Wildlife.
  2. 1 2 "Corymbia torta K.D. Hill & L.A.S. Johnson, Telopea 6: 418 (1995)". Eucalink. Royal Botanic Garden, Sydney. Retrieved 13 October 2016.
  3. ↑ "Corymbia torta subsp. torta". FloraBase. Western Australian Government Department of Parks and Wildlife.
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