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Eucalyptus melliodora

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Name

Identification
Isotype of Eucalyptus melliodora A.Cunn. ex Schauer [family MYRTACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Not on sheet,
Related name
  • Eucalyptus melliodora

Flora

Entry for EUCALYPTUS melliodora Schauer [family MYRTACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora of Tropical East Africa
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora of Tropical East Africa, page 1, (2001) Author: B Verdcourt, B.Sc., Ph.D.
Names
EUCALYPTUS melliodora Schauer [family MYRTACEAE], in Walp., Repert. Bot. Syst. 2: 924 (1843); Dale, Introd. Trees Uganda: 38 (1953); Fl. Austral. 19: 421, fig. 108/g–h, photo. 8 (1988); Friis in Fl. Eth. 2 (2); 105, fig. 72.51 (1996). Type: Australia, New South Wales, New Bathurst, Cunningham 57 (ubi?, holo., E, G, K!, MEL, NSW, iso.)
Information
Tree to 30 m with grey, yellow or red-brown fibrous bark on lower trunk and sometimes larger branches, yellowish white and smooth above. Juvenile leaves ovate or elliptic; adult lanceolate, 6.5–14 cm long, 0.8–1.8 cm wide; petiole terete or slightly flattened, 1–1.5 cm long. Umbels 7-flowered; peduncle terete or quadrangular, 0.3–1.1[1.5] cm long; pedicels 2–9 mm long. Buds clavate to fusiform; operculum conical to rostrate, 2–3 mm long, ± 3 mm wide, usually narrower than the hemispherical calyx-tube which is 3–4 mm long and wide. Fruits hemispherical, ovoid to subglobular, 4–7 mm long and wide with narrow descending disc and obscured by a prominent dark staminal ring and usually 5 flush or included valves. Fig. 8/23, p. 41.
Range
DISTR. U 2; K 3–5
Distribution
UGANDA Introduced into Ankole District, Ankole, 1930KENYA Nakuru District Bahati Forest Station, 20 Jan. 1953, Pudden 1!
Notes
Yields an extremely durable strong timber.

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