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:
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S.Aust.: NW, NU.
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Conservation status:
native
Flowering time: mainly July — 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:
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Author:
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