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Inland white mahogany |
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Eucalyptus apothalassica L.Johnson & K.Hill, Telopea 4: 84 (1990). T: Queensland: on property 5 km south of Kogan on Tara road, 25 Aug. 1984, K.Hill 1245 & L.Johnson; holo: NSW; iso: PERTH,BRI,CANB. Tree to 15 m tall. Bark rough throughout, grey or grey-brown, fibrous, held in flattish strips rather than like typical stringybark. Juvenile stem rounded in cross-section; juvenile leaves opposite and sessile for at least 10 pairs then becoming alternate, petiolate, ovate to lanceolate, 6.5-15 cm long, 2-4.5 cm wide, discolorous, slightly glossy, green or blue-green. Adult leaves alternate, petiolate, lanceolate to falcate, 5-14 cm long, 1.2-2.8 cm wide, base oblique or tapering evenly to petiole, margin entire, concolorous, dull or glossy, green, penniveined but often weakly so, moderately to densely reticulate, intramarginal vein parallel to and well removed from margin, oil glands island or obscure. Inflorescences axillary unbranched, peduncles 0.5-2.3 cm long, 11- 15-flowered; buds pedicellate, ovoid to fusiform, green to yellow, scar absent, operculum conical to beaked, stamens irregularly flexed, anthers reniform to cordate, versatile, dorsifixed, dehiscing by confluent slits, style long, locules 3 or 4, the placentae each with 2 vertical ovule rows; flowers white. Fruit pedicellate, truncate-globose or barrel-shaped, 0.5-0.7 cm wide, disc descending, valves 3 or 4, slightly exserted or near rim level. Seed brown, 1-2 mm long, pyramidal or obliquely pyramidal, dorsal surface smooth, hilum terminal. NOTES Eucalyptus apothalassica (Greek apo, away from and thalassicos, the sea, refers to its distribution in relation to its congeners) A small to medium-sized tree on sandstone-derived soils in the Yetman area. A white mahogany, it is closely related to widespread E. acmenoides but differs by the concolorous, thicker adult leaves and lower stature. |
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