Eucalyptus apodophylla

Whitebark
Scientific classification
Kingdom:Plantae
Clade:Angiosperms
Clade:Eudicots
Clade:Rosids
Order:Myrtales
Family:Myrtaceae
Genus:Eucalyptus
Species: E. apodophylla
Binomial name
Eucalyptus apodophylla
Blakely & Jacobs

Eucalyptus apodophylla, commonly known as whitebark,[1][2] is a tree that is native to the Kimberley region of Western Australia and the Northern Territory.[3][1]

Description

The tree typically grows to a height of 6 to 20 metres (20 to 70 ft) and has smooth powdery white bark.[3] The small tree with leaves in the mature crown leaves that are normally sessile and mostly discolorous. The leaves are elliptical with an ovate to broadly lanceolate shape.[4]

It blooms between July and October producing white inflorescences[3] along with sessile to shortly pedicellate buds. The fruits that follow have a width of 0.4 to 0.8 centimetres (0.16 to 0.31 in).[4]

Taxonomy

The species was described in 1934 by the botanists William Blakely and Jacobs in the work A Key to the Eucalypts.[1]

The whitebark belongs to the Subexsertae series and sub-series Applanatae, along with Eucalyptus bigalerita, Eucalyptus platyphylla, Eucalyptus tintinnans and Eucalyptus houseana.[4]

Distribution

It is found across the north of the Kimberley of Western Australia[3] and north western parts of the top end of the Northern Territory[1] in a range of habitats including among sandstone outcrops, around swamps, creek banks and seasonally inundated flats where it grows in sand, clay or loam soils.[3]

See also

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 "Eucalyptus apodophylla Blakely & Jacobs Whitebark". Atlas of Living Australia. Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Retrieved 7 January 2016.
  2. ↑ Philip A. Clarke (2012). Australian plants as Aboriginal Tools. Rosenberg Publishing. ISBN 9781922013576.
  3. 1 2 3 4 5 "Eucalyptus apodophylla". FloraBase. Western Australian Government Department of Parks and Wildlife.
  4. 1 2 3 "More about Red Gums and other associated groups". Euclid. CSIRO. Retrieved 1 September 2018.
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