Eucalyptus corrugata

Rough fruited mallee
Scientific classification
Kingdom:Plantae
Clade:Angiosperms
Clade:Eudicots
Clade:Rosids
Order:Myrtales
Family:Myrtaceae
Genus:Eucalyptus
Species: E. corrugata
Binomial name
Eucalyptus corrugata

Eucalyptus corrugata, also known as rough fruited mallee, is a eucalypt that is native to Western Australia.[1]

The tree typically grows to a height of 4 to 15 metres (13 to 49 ft).[1] The white or grey and grey-brown or yellow bark is smooth throughout or persistent on the base where it is fibrous-flaky with whitish patches. The adult leaves are disjunct, glossy, green, thick and concolorous. The blade has a narrow lanceolate or lanceolate to falcate shape that is basally tapered.[2] When the tree blooms between October and March[1] it forms a simple axillary conflorescence with three-flowered umbellasters and terete peduncles. Buds are clavate with calyptrate calyx that sheds early. Fruits form that are hemispherical with a depressed or flat disc and valves that are exserted.[2]

The species was first formally described by the botanist Johann George Luehmann in 1897 in the work Reliquiae Muellerianae: Descriptions of New Australian Plants in the Melbourne Herbarium. published in The Victorian Naturalist.[3]

It is distributed through a small are in the Goldfields-Esperance region of Western Australia south west of Kalgoorlie in scrub land where it grows in rocky clay loam soils.[1]

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References

  1. 1 2 3 4 "Eucalyptus corrugata". FloraBase. Western Australian Government Department of Parks and Wildlife.
  2. 1 2 "Eucalyptus corrugata Luehm., Victorian Naturalist 13: 168 (1897)". Eucalink. CSIRO. 2002. Retrieved 31 October 2016.
  3. ↑ "Eucalyptus corrugata Luehm". Atlas of Living Australia. Global Biodiversity Information Facility.
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