Eucalyptus doratoxylon
| Eucalyptus doratoxylon | |
|---|---|
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| (unranked): | Angiosperms |
| (unranked): | Eudicots |
| (unranked): | Rosids |
| Order: | Myrtales |
| Family: | Myrtaceae |
| Genus: | Eucalyptus |
| Species: | E. doratoxylon |
| Binomial name | |
| Eucalyptus doratoxylon[1] F.Muell. | |
Eucalyptus doratoxylon, commonly known as the spearwood mallee, is a eucalypt that is native to Western Australia.[2]
The Noongar peoples know the tree as Geitch-Gmunt.[3]
The mallee typically grows to a height of 1.4 to 6 metres (5 to 20 ft) and has powdery white, smooth bark.[2] Adult leaves are opposite, glossy, green, thin and discolorous. The leaf blade has anarrow lanceolate shape and is basally tapered.[4] It blooms between August and March producing white-cream flowers.[2] The simple axillary conflorescence has three to seven flowered umbellasters with terete peduncles. Buds are rostrate with a calyptrate calyx that sheds early. Fruits form later that are globose with a depressed disc.[4]
It is found on hills and among granite outcrops along the south coast in the Great Southern and Goldfields-Esperance regions of western Australia where it grows in sandy loam or white-grey sandy soils.[2]
The species was first formally described by the botanist Ferdinand von Mueller in 1880 in the journal Fragmenta Phytographiae Australiae from samples collected by G. Maxwell in the Kojoneerup district.[4]
See also
References
- ↑ "Atlas of Living Australia - Eucalyptus doratoxylon - F.Muell". Atlas of Living Australia. Retrieved 5 November 2016.
- 1 2 3 4 "Eucalyptus doratoxylon". FloraBase. Western Australian Government Department of Parks and Wildlife.
- ↑ "Noongar names for plants". kippleonline.net. Retrieved 20 November 2016.
- 1 2 3 "Eucalyptus doratoxylon F. Muell., Fragm. 2: 55 (1800)". Eucalink. Royal Botanic Garden, Sydney. Retrieved 20 November 2016.