Eucalyptus transcontinentalis

Redwood
Fruit of E. transcontinentalis
Scientific classification
Kingdom:Plantae
Clade:Angiosperms
Clade:Eudicots
Clade:Rosids
Order:Myrtales
Family:Myrtaceae
Genus:Eucalyptus
Species: E. transcontinentalis
Binomial name
Eucalyptus transcontinentalis
Eucalyptus transcontinentalis buds

Eucalyptus transcontinentalis, commonly known as redwood, is a mallee tree that is native to Western Australia.[1] The Noongar name for the tree is Boongul.[2]

Description

The mallee or tree typically grows to a height of 15 metres (49 ft) and has rough bark on the trunk to smooth bark higher up. The bark is a white to grey colour with occasional pale grey-yellow or pink botches. It blooms between July and December producing yellow to white flowers.[1] the adult leaves are disjunct, glossy, grey-green, thin and concolorous. The blade has a lanceolate shape, is acute and basally tapered. A terminal or axillary simple conflorescence is produced with seven-flowered umbellasters and quadrangular penduncles which later form globose or ovoid shaped fruit.[3]

Distribution

It is found on flats and low rises in the southern eastern Wheatbelt and south western Goldfields-Esperance regions of Western Australia where it grows in sands, loams and clay-loam soils.[1]

Taxonomy

The species was first described by the botanist George Bentham in 1867 in the journal Flora Australiensis as Eucalyptus uncinata var. rostrata from samples collected by Maxwell and Drummond near the Phillips Range and the Murchison River. It was then reclassified by Joseph Maiden as Eucalyptus oleosa var. glauca in 1911. It was later promoted to a species by Joseph Maiden in 1919 in the Journal and Proceedings of the Royal Society of New South Wales from samples he had collected from near Kalgoorlie in 1909.[3]

See also

References

  1. 1 2 3 "Eucalyptus transcontinentalis". FloraBase. Western Australian Government Department of Parks and Wildlife.
  2. ↑ "Noongar names for plants". kippleonline.net. Retrieved 5 December 2016.
  3. 1 2 "Eucalyptus transcontinentalis Maiden, J. & Proc. Roy. Soc. New South Wales 53: 58 (1919)". Eucalink. Royal Botanic Garden, Sydney. Retrieved 5 December 2016.
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