Eucalyptus dissimulata

Red-capped mallee
Scientific classification
Kingdom:Plantae
Clade:Angiosperms
Clade:Eudicots
Clade:Rosids
Order:Myrtales
Family:Myrtaceae
Genus:Eucalyptus
Species: E. dissimulata
Binomial name
Eucalyptus dissimulata

Eucalyptus dissimulata, commonly known as the red-capped mallee, is a eucalypt that is native to Western Australia.[1]

Description

The mallee typically grows to a height of 1 to 6 metres (3 to 20 ft)[1] and forms a lignotuber[2] and has smooth grey-cream bark[1] that sheds in strips. The glossy green adult leaves are arranged alternately. The leaf blade has a narrowly ellipitical to narrowly lanceolate shape and is 4.5 to 9.5 centimetres (1.8 to 3.7 in) in length with a width of 0.5 to 1.7 cm (0.20 to 0.67 in).[2]

It blooms between October and March producing inflorescences with white-cream flowers.[1] Each inflorescence is axillary and unbranched. The fruits that form later are typically 0.5 to 0.7 cm (0.20 to 0.28 in) in length an width with a shortly cylindrical to barrel shape containing brown-grey flattened ovoid shape seeds.[2]

Classification

The species was first formally identified by the botanist Ian Brooker in 1988 in the journal Nuytsia. The type specimen was collected by Brooker in 1984 about 30 kilometres (19 mi) north of Needilup.[2]

It is part of the Eucalyptus subgenus Symphyomyrtus in the section Bisectae and the subsection Destitutae.

The species name dissimulata is from the latin word dissimulatus meaning hidden referring to the long time the species remained unrecognised in the wheatbelt.[2]

Distribution

It is found on sand-plains and along creeks in the Wheatbelt and Goldfields-Esperance regions between Corrigin and Munglinup where it grows in sandy-loamy soils.[1]

See also

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 "Eucalyptus dissimulata". FloraBase. Western Australian Government Department of Parks and Wildlife.
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 "Factsheet - Eucalyptus dissimulata". Euclid. CSIRO. Retrieved 15 August 2018.
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