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Eucalyptus racemosa

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Identification
Isotype of Eucalyptus micrantha DC. [family MYRTACEAE ] Eucalyptus racemosa Cav. [family MYRTACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by S. Chippendale,
Related name
  • Eucalyptus signata
  • Eucalyptus micrantha
  • Eucalyptus racemosa

Flora

Entry for EUCALYPTUS crebra F. Muell. [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 crebra F. Muell. [family MYRTACEAE], in J. Proc. Linn. Soc. Bot. 3: 87 (1859); T.T.C.L.: 371 (1949); U.O.P.Z.: 248 (1949); Dale, Introd. Trees Uganda: 36 (1953); Fl. Austral. 19: 407, figs. 105/c–d (1988); Friis in Fl. Eth. 2 (2): 104, fig. 72.50 (1996). Type: Australia, Queensland, Burdekin, F. Mueller s.n. (MEL, holo.)
EUCALYPTUS racemosa [family MYRTACEAE], [sensu Blakely, Key to the Eucalypts ed. 2: 260 (1955), non Cav.]
Information
Tree to 30 m with rough dark grey to black ironbark throughout. Juvenile leaves linear to narrowly lanceolate, adult lanceolate, 5–15 cm long, 1–1.7 cm wide; petiole 1–1.5 cm long. Umbels 7–11-flowered, arranged in panicles; peduncle terete to quadrangular, 0.4–1.2[1.5] cm long; pedicels 1–6[10] mm long with angles sometimes continuing as ribs on calyx-tube. Buds clavate or fusiform; operculum hemispherical to conical, 2–3 mm long, ± 3 mm wide. Calyx-tube hemispherical to ovoid, 2–3 mm long, ± 3 mm wide. Fruits hemispherical or ovoid, [3]4–7 mm long, [3]4–6 mm wide with narrow level or descending disc and 3–4 ± flush to included valves.
Range
DISTR. U 2; K 3, 4; T 3, 6; Z
Distribution
UGANDA Ankole fide DaleKENYA Nakuru District Menengai, 20 Aug. 1953, Dillon 3 (fide EA)TANZANIA Lushoto District Lushoto Arboretum plot no. 126, 3 Mar. 1976, Shabani 1117!KENYA Kiambu District Muguga Arboretum, 28 June 1963, Verdcourt 3669E!TANZANIA  (U.O.P.Z.: 248 (1949)) mentions a tree growing in the Migombani Gardens, Zanzibar
Notes
Produces an extremely durable hard strong timber much used for heavy construction, railway sleepers etc.

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