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Eucalyptus muelleriana

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Type? of Eucalyptus dextropinea R.T.Baker [family MYRTACEAE]

Isosyntype of Eucalyptus dextropinea R.T.Baker [family MYRTACEAE]

Lectotype of Eucalyptus muelleriana A.W.Howitt [family MYRTACEAE]

Eucalyptus muelleriana A.W.Howitt [family MYRTACEAE]

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Eucalyptus muelleriana A.W.Howitt [family MYRTACEAE ] Verified by Brooker, M.I.H., 1993 Eucalyptus muelleriana A.W.Howitt [family MYRTACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Not on sheet,

Flora

Entry for EUCALYPTUS muelleriana A.W. Howitt [family MYRTACEAE]

Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)

Flora of Tropical East Africa

Reference Sources

Flora of Tropical East Africa, page 1, (2001) Author: B Verdcourt, B.Sc., Ph.D.

EUCALYPTUS muelleriana A.W. Howitt [family MYRTACEAE], in Trans. Roy. Soc. Victoria n. ser. 2: 89 (1890); Fl. Austral. 19: 142, fig. 55/k–l (1988). Type: Victoria, S Gippsland, near Hedley, Nine Mile Creek, Howitt 6 (MEL, lecto. fide Willis in Muellera 1: 127 (1967))

Tree to 40 m with grey-brown fibrous stringy bark throughout. Juvenile leaves ovate, often oblique; adult lanceolate, 8–13 cm long, 1.5–2.5 cm wide, distinctly unequal at the base; petiole channelled, 1.5–2 cm long. Umbels 7–11-flowered; peduncle angular or flattened, 0.8–1.8[2.5] cm long; pedicels 1–3[4–6] mm long. Buds ovoid to clavate; operculum hemispherical to conical, 2–3 mm long, 3–4 mm wide. Calyx-tube obconical, 3–5 mm long, 3–4 mm wide. Fruit subglobose to truncate-ovoid, 7–10[11] mm long, 8–12 mm wide with broad level, slightly descending or sometimes slightly convex disc and 4 slightly included or slightly exserted valves. Fig. 8/26, p. 41.

DISTR. K 3, 4; T 3

KENYA Kiambu District Muguga Arboretum, 28 June 1963, Verdcourt 3669C!TANZANIA Recorded from Lushoto District:Lushoto