Family: Myrtaceae
Eucalyptus flindersii
Citation:
Boomsma, J. Adelaide Bot. Gard. 2:293 (1980).
Synonymy: E. morrisii sensu J. Black, Fl.S. Aust. 631 (1952), partly.
Common name: Grey mallee, mallee red gum, Flinders mallee.
Description:
Multi- or single-stemmed trees to 10 m high; bark smooth, dull, grey, shedding in flakes to reveal a paler layer, some rough bark persisting at the base; cotyledons notched or reniform; juvenile leaves opposite to alternate, petiolate, elliptic to ovate; adult leaves alternate, on petioles 10-20 mm long, dull, grey-green, narrow-lanceolate to lanceolate, 7-14 x 1-2 cm; veins clear.
Flowers in umbels of 3-7 in the axils of the leaves; buds sessile or rarely on pedicels to 2 mm long, ovoid to obovoid, smooth, 7-10 x 4-5 mm; operculum conical, longer than the obconical hypanthium; flowers white; anthers all fertile, obovate.
Fruits ovoid to broadly obconical, smooth, with a broad sometimes raised disk, 6-9 x 5-8 mm; valves triangular, exserted; seeds dark-grey-brown to dark-grey, not winged but with an almost fimbriate margin, irregularly ellipsoid or angled, with shallow depressions.
Published illustration:
Brooker & Kleinig (1983) Field guide to eucalypts 1:168.
Distribution:
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S.Aust.: FR, EA, EP.
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Conservation status:
native
Flowering time: mainly Sept. — Nov.
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SA Distribution Map based
on current data relating to
specimens held in the
State Herbarium of South Australia
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Biology:
No text
Taxonomic notes:
Until 1980 this was treated as E. morrisii, a Qld and N.S.W. species to which it is extremely similar.
Author:
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