Eucalyptus acies (Woolbernup Mallee)
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Flowers of Eucalyptus acies on Mount Manypeaks, Western Australia
Photograph by P. Ollerenshaw. Some rights reserved. (view image details)
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Eucalyptus acies on Mount Manypeaks, Western Australia
Photograph by P. Ollerenshaw. Some rights reserved.
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Credits:
Description, Habitat and Distribution information is sourced from: G.M.Chippendale (2017) Eucalyptus acies. In: Flora of Australia. Australian Biological Resources Study, Department of the Environment and Energy, Canberra. https://profiles.ala.org.au/opus/foa/profile/Eucalyptus%20acies Licensed under Creative Commons CC BY 4.0 license.
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WOOLBERNUP MALLEE FACTS |
Map is from The Atlas of Living Australia web site, licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Australia License
Common Name
Woolbernup Mallee
Description
Mallee to 2.5 m. Bark grey. Juvenile leaves opposite, subsessile, oblong-elliptic, concolorous. Adult leaves opposite or subopposite, lanceolate to broadly lanceolate, acuminate, broadly cuneate, coriaceous; lamina 9-15 cm long, 2-3.5 cm wide, green or yellow-green; lateral veins just visible, at 40° -50° ; intramarginal vein up to 2 mm from margin; petiole flattened, 15-30 mm long. Umbels 7-flowered; peduncles flattened or angular, widening upwards, usually reflexed, 13-26 mm long; pedicels flattened, 5-8 mm long. Buds clavate or shortly fusiform; operculum conical to hemispherical, smooth or shallowly ribbed, 3-5 mm long, 7-9 mm wide; hypanthium obconical, prominently ribbed, 5-8 mm long, 8-10 mm wide. Fruits hemispherical or campanulate, 10-15 mm long, 12-16 mm wide; disc broad, level with rim or slightly convex; valves 3 or 4, level. Seeds angular, slightly winged, grey-black or brown-black.
Habitat
Grows in low shrubland and heathland.
Distribution
Occurs on quartzite hills of the Fizgerald River Natl Park and near Cheyne Beach, W.A.
Classification
| Class: | Magnoliopsida | | Order: | Myrtales | | Family: | Myrtaceae | | Genus: | Eucalyptus | | Species: | acies | | Common Name: | Woolbernup Mallee |
Relatives in same Genus
Eucalyptus acaciiformis
Eucalyptus accedens
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
Eucalyptus leucoxylon var Rosea
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