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Eucalyptus obliqua

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Name

Identification
Eucalyptus obliqua L'Her. [family MYRTACEAE ] (stored under name);
Related name
  • Eucalyptus elata
  • Eucalyptus nervosa
  • Eucalyptus gigantea
  • Eucalyptus obliqua
  • Eucalyptus lecaisnema

Flora

Entry for EUCALYPTUS obliqua L’Hér. [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 obliqua L’Hér. [family MYRTACEAE], Sert. Angl.: 18 (1788), t. 20 (1792); Fl. Austral. 19: 160, fig. 58/k–l (1988); Friis in Fl. Eth. 2 (2): 89, fig. 72.15 (1996). Type: Australia, Tasmania, Adventure Bay, Nelson s.n. (BM!, holo.)
Information
Tree to 90 m with grey to red-brown furrowed stringy fibrous bark throughout. Juvenile leaves ovate, oblique; adult broadly lanceolate, 10–15 cm long, 1.5–5 cm wide, shining; petiole channelled, 0.7–1.7 cm long. Umbels 11- or more-flowered; peduncles angular or flattened, 0.4–1.5 cm long; pedicels 1–6 mm long. Buds clavate; operculum hemispherical, 1–2 mm long, 2–3 mm wide, apiculate. Calyx-tube 2–4 mm long, 2–3 mm wide. Fruits ovoid, subglobose, barrel-shaped or urceolate, 6–11 mm long, 5–9 mm wide with level or steeply descending disc and 3–4 included valves. Fig. 8/27, p. 41.
Range
DISTR. K 4; T 3
Distribution
KENYA Kiambu District Lari, Pudden 054! & Uplands Arboretum, 1958, Pudden s.n. (fide EA)TANZANIA Lushoto District Amani, A.H. 9142 (fide T.T.C.L.)
Notes
This is the type species of the genus. The messmate is one of the most important Australian hardwoods.

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