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Family: Myrtaceae
Eucalyptus pimpiniana

Citation: Maiden, Crit. Rev. Eucalyptus 16:211 (1912).

Synonymy: E. isingiana Maiden, Crit. Rev. Eucalyptus 57:353 (1922).

Common name: Pimpin mallee.

Description:
Multi-stemmed shrubs to 2 m high; bark smooth throughout, grey or white; cotyledons notched or reniform; juvenile leaves opposite to alternate, petiolate, elliptic to ovate; adult leaves alternate, on petioles 15-20 mm long, lanceolate to broadly lanceolate, sometimes rather thick, dull, 6-10 x 3-5 cm, veins faint.

Flowers in umbels of up to 11 in the axils of the leaves; buds pendulous, on pedicels 5-13 mm long, cylindrical to narrowly obovoid or campanulate, striate or sometimes ribbed, 18-25 x 7-10 mm; operculum conical to rostrate, about as long as the hypanthium; flowers white to yellow; anthers all fertile, almost orbicular.

Fruits cylindrical or cylindrical-campanulate, woody, usually faintly ribbed, with broad vertical disk and narrow rim, 15-20 x 12-15 mm; valves 3 or 4, deeply included; seeds grey-black, compressed-ellipsoid, with a winglike margin, reticulate.

Distribution:  S.Aust.: NW, NU.

Conservation status: native

Flowering time: mainly July — Nov.


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