Eucalyptus ligulata

Lucky Bay mallee
E. ligulata inflorescence
Scientific classification
Kingdom:Plantae
Clade:Angiosperms
Clade:Eudicots
Clade:Rosids
Order:Myrtales
Family:Myrtaceae
Genus:Eucalyptus
Species: E. ligulata
Binomial name
Eucalyptus ligulata

Eucalyptus ligulata, commonly known as Lucky Bay mallee, is a mallee that is native to a few small areas along the south coast of Western Australia.[1]

The mallee typically grows to a height of 3 to 4 metres (10 to 13 ft) and has smooth bark with a grey-brown-green colour. It blooms between March and October producing cream-white flowers.[1] The dull, green, coriaceous and concolorous adult leaves have a disjunct arrangement. The leaf blade has a lanceolate shape and is basally tapered. Leaves are supported by narrowly flattened or channelled petioles. Each simple, axillary conflorescence is made up of seven to eleven flowered umbellasters on narrowly flattened or angular peduncles. The buds are clavate with a conical calyptra that is three times the length of the hypanthium. The fruits that form later have a globose or ovoid shape with a depressed disc and enclosed valves.[2]

The species was first formally described by the botanist Ian Brooker in 1974 as part of the work Six new species of Eucalyptus from Western Australia in the journal Nuytsia.[3] The type specimen was collected by K.M.Allen in 1972 from around Cape Le Grand.[2]

There are two known subspecies:

  • Eucalyptus ligulata Brooker subsp. ligulata
  • Eucalyptus ligulata subsp. stirlingica D.Nicolle[4]

It is found along creeklines and among sand dunes along the south coast in the Great Southern and Goldfields-Esperance regions of Western Australia between Albany and Cape Arid where it grows in sandy-loamy soils around sandstone or granite.

See also

References

  1. 1 2 "Eucalyptus ligulata". FloraBase. Western Australian Government Department of Parks and Wildlife.
  2. 1 2 "Eucalyptus ligulata". Eucalink. Royal Botanic Garden, Sydney. Retrieved 10 December 2017.
  3. ↑ "Eucalyptus ligulata Brooker". Atlas of Living Australia. Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Retrieved 10 December 2017.
  4. ↑ "Eucalyptus ligulata subsp. stirlingica". FloraBase. Western Australian Government Department of Parks and Wildlife.
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