Eucalyptus arachnaea

Black stemmed mallee
Scientific classification
Kingdom:Plantae
Clade:Angiosperms
Clade:Eudicots
Clade:Rosids
Order:Myrtales
Family:Myrtaceae
Genus:Eucalyptus
Species: E. arachanaea
Binomial name
Eucalyptus arachanaea

Eucalyptus arachnaea, commonly known as the black-stemmed mallee, is a mallee tree that is native to Western Australia.[1]

The tree typically grows to a height of 1.5 to 10 metres (5 to 30 ft) and has rough stringy bark. It blooms between January and May producing white-cream flowers.[1]

It is found in breakways, slopes and gullies from coastal areas of the Mid West and extending south through the Wheatbelt region of Western Australia. It is common between Northampton in the north to Brookton where it grows in sandy-clay-loamy soils over granite or laterite.[1]

The species was first formally described as Eucalyptus redunca var. melanophloia by George Bentham in 1867 in the work Orders XLVIII. Myrtaceae- LXII. Compositae. in Flora Australiensis.[2]

It was subsequently reclassified in 1991 by the botanists Ian Brooker and Stephen Hopper in the work A taxonomic revision of Eucalyptus wandoo, E. redunca and allied species (Eucalyptus series Levispermae Maiden - Myrtaceae) in Western Australia. in the journal Nuytsia.[2]

There are two known subspecies:

  • Eucalyptus arachnaea subsp. arachnaea
  • Eucalyptus arachnaea subsp. arrecta[3]

See also

References

  1. 1 2 3 "Eucalyptus arachnaea". FloraBase. Western Australian Government Department of Parks and Wildlife.
  2. 1 2 "Eucalyptus arachnaea Brooker & Hopper". Atlas of Living Australia. Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Retrieved 11 June 2017.
  3. ↑ "Eucalyptus arachnaea subsp. arrecta". FloraBase. Western Australian Government Department of Parks and Wildlife.
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