Eucalyptus dolichocera

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

Eucalyptus dolichocera is a eucalypt that is native to Western Australia.[1]

Description

The mallee typically grows to a height of 6 metres (20 ft) and has rough and ribbony up half of the trunk. The bark is grey below to grey-brown or red-brown in colour above. The tree blooms between October and November[1] and produces simple axillary conflorescences with seven to eleven flowered umbellasters on peduncles that are narrowly flattened or angular. Buds are glaucous and rostrate or urceolate in shape with a calyptrate calyx that sheds early. Ovoid or urceolate shaped fruits with a depressed disc form later.[2]

Classification

The species was first formally identified by the botanists Lawrence Alexander Sidney Johnson and Ken Hill in 1999 in the journal Telopea. The type specimen was collected by Ian Brooker and D. Blaxell in 1975 about 80 kilometres (50 mi) north east of Kalbarri.[3]

It is part of the Eucalyptus subgenus Symphyomyrtus in the section Bisectae and the subsection Destitutae. The tree is similar in appearance to Eucalyptus moderata

The species name dolichocera is from the latin words dolio meaning long and chera meaning horn referring to the long and narrow operculum on the buds.[3]

Distribution

The species is found in sanddunes, on flats and sandplains and has a range from just north of Geraldton in the Mid West then spreading south down through the Wheatbelt region. It grows in red sand and limestone and laterite soils.[1]

See also

References

  1. 1 2 3 "Eucalyptus dolichocera". FloraBase. Western Australian Government Department of Parks and Wildlife.
  2. ↑ "Eucalyptus dolichocera L.A.S. Johnson & K.D. Hill, Telopea 8(2): 196 (1999)". Eucalink. Royal Botanic Garden, Sydney. Retrieved 5 November 2016.
  3. 1 2 "Factsheet - Eucalyptus dolichocera". Euclid. CSIRO. Retrieved 15 August 2018.
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