Eucalyptus eugenioides (Thin-leaved Stringybark)

Eucalyptus eugenioides growing in the Australian National Botanic Gardens

Photograph by Murray Fagg. Some rights reserved. (view image details)

Credits:
Description, Habitat and Distribution information is sourced from: G.M.Chippendale (2017) Eucalyptus eugenioides. In: Flora of Australia. Australian Biological Resources Study, Department of the Environment and Energy, Canberra. https://profiles.ala.org.au/opus/foa/profile/Eucalyptus%20eugenioides Licensed under Creative Commons CC BY 4.0 license.

PLANT FACTS

distribution map showing range of Eucalyptus eugenioides in Australia

Map is from The Atlas of Living Australia web site, licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Australia License

Common Name
Thin-leaved Stringybark

Description
The Thin-leaved Stringybark is a tree to 30 m. Bark grey to brown. Juvenile leaves narrowly ovate, dark green, discolorous. Adult leaves lanceolate, acuminate; lamina 10-14 cm long, 2.5-3.3 cm wide, green, concolorous or slightly discolorous; lateral veins faint, at 20° -30° ; intramarginal vein up to 3 mm from margin; petiole channelled, 10-17 mm long. Umbels 7-11-flowered, sometimes more; peduncle angular or flattened, 6-16 mm long; pedicels 1-5 mm long, sometimes absent. Buds fusiform; operculum conical, 2-4 mm long, 3-4 mm wide; hypanthium obconical, 2-3 mm long, 3-4 mm wide. Fruits hemispherical, globular or subglobular, 4-8 mm long, 5-9 mm wide; disc broad, just descending, level, convex, or slightly ascending; valves 3 or 4, included, level or exserted.

Habitat
Grows on hills or undulating country, in open forest.

Distribution
Occurs from south-eastern Qld through the tableland and coastal areas of N.S.W. almost to the Vic. border.

Growth Characteristics
Height: 15m - 25m
Spread: 8m - 12m

Classification

Class:	Magnoliopsida
Order:	Myrtales
Family:	Myrtaceae
Genus:	Eucalyptus
Species:	eugenioides
Common Name:	Thin-leaved Stringybark

Relatives in same Genus
  Eucalyptus acaciiformis
  Eucalyptus accedens
  Eucalyptus acies
  Eucalyptus albens
  Eucalyptus bancroftii
  Eucalyptus baxteri
  Eucalyptus caleyi
  Eucalyptus camaldulensis
  Eucalyptus camphora
  Eucalyptus cloeziana
  Eucalyptus crebra
  Eucalyptus crenulata
  Eucalyptus curtisii
  Eucalyptus dealbata
  Eucalyptus dumosa
  Eucalyptus forrestiana
  Eucalyptus goniocalyx
  Eucalyptus grandis
  Eucalyptus intertexta
  Eucalyptus largiflorens
  Eucalyptus leucoxylon var Rosea
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