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THOZET'S BOX FACTS |
Map is from The Atlas of Living Australia web site, licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Australia License
Common Name
Thozet's Box
Other Names
Yapunyah
Description
Thozet's Box is a tree to 25 m. Bark smooth throughout, white to grey, sometimes pink-grey; exfoliating flakes often retained in small curls. Juvenile leaves linear, green, concolorous. Adult leaves narrowly lanceolate, acuminate; lamina 6-15 cm long, 0.5-1.1 cm wide, green; lateral veins faint, at 30° -40° ; intramarginal vein up to 1 mm from margin; petiole terete, 5-10 mm long. Peduncle terete or angular, 5-14 mm long; pedicels 2-6 mm long. Buds ovoid to clavate, somewhat quadrangular; operculum conical, 1-2 mm long, 2-3 mm wide; hypanthium suburceolate, 2-3 mm long and wide. Fruits cylindrical to ovoid, 3-6 mm long, 3-4 mm wide; valves 3 or 4.
Habitat
Grows mainly in sandy soil on plains, small hills and ridges, in woodland and open forest.
Distribution
Occurs in Qld from Charters Towers southwards almost to the N.S.W. border, with a small isolated disjunct population NE of Alice Springs, N.T.
Growth Characteristics
Height: 12m - 25m
Spread: 10m - 15m
Classification
| Class: | Magnoliopsida | | Order: | Myrtales | | Family: | Myrtaceae | | Genus: | Eucalyptus | | Species: | thozetiana | | Common Name: | Thozet's Box |
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 eugenioides
Eucalyptus forrestiana
Eucalyptus goniocalyx
Eucalyptus grandis
Eucalyptus intertexta
Eucalyptus largiflorens
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