Eucalyptus absita

Badgingarra box

Declared rare (DEC)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:Plantae
Clade:Angiosperms
Clade:Eudicots
Clade:Rosids
Order:Myrtales
Family:Myrtaceae
Genus:Eucalyptus
Species: E. absita
Binomial name
Eucalyptus absita
Grayling & Brooker

Eucalyptus absita also known as the Badgingarra box[1] is a tree that is native to a small area near Badgingarra in the Shire of Dandaragan in Western Australia.[2]

The tree stands between 2.5 metres (8 ft) and 10 m (33 ft) tall[2] with fibrous grey-brown box type bark for up to 2 m (6.6 ft). Above this the bark is gray over copper and green and smoother.[3] Adult leaves have a dense vein network and are glossy in appearance.

The plant flowers between April and July and the inflorescence is white,[2] seven-flowered and terminal.[3]

It was first described by the botanists Peter Grayling and Ian Brooker in 1992 in the journal Nuytsia from sample collected by Brooker south east of Badgingarra in 1986.[4] The species was declared rare flora in 1989 and then as critically endangered in 1997.[5]

E. absita belongs in Eucalyptus subgenus Symphyomyrtus section Adnataria (also known as the boxes). Within the Adnataria section, E. absita is part of a subgroup, series Buxeales which are all found in south-eastern Australia, with only three occurring in Western Australia, those being Eucalyptus cuprea , Eucalyptus absita and Eucalyptus lucasii. All three have inflexed stamens which separates them from the eastern species.[6]

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Eucalyptus absita — Badgingarra Box". Department of Environment. 2016. Retrieved 5 January 2016.
  2. 1 2 3 "Eucalyptus absita". FloraBase. Western Australian Government Department of Parks and Wildlife.
  3. 1 2 "Badgingarra Box - (Eucalyptus absita) Interim Recovery Plan No. 226" (PDF). Perth, Western Australia: Department of Environment and Conservation. 2008. Retrieved 5 January 2016.
  4. ↑ "Eucalyptus absita Grayling & Brooker, Nuytsia 8: 210 (1992)". Euclid. CSIRO. 2002. Retrieved 18 November 2016.
  5. ↑ "Badgingarra Box (Eucalyptus absita)". Commonwealth of Australia. 2008. Retrieved 5 January 2016.
  6. ↑ "Eucalyptus absita". Euclid. CSIRO publishing. Retrieved 10 December 2017.
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