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Eucalyptus siderophloia

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Name

Identification
Eucalyptus decorticans (F. M. Bailey) Maiden [family MYRTACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Not on Sheet, Isotype of Eucalyptus siderophloia Bentham [family MYRTACEAE ] Verified by F. M. Bailey, 1911
Related name
  • Eucalyptus decorticans
  • Eucalyptus fibrosa
  • Eucalyptus decepta
  • Eucalyptus siderophloia
  • Eucalyptus resinifera

Flora

Entry for EUCALYPTUS siderophloia Benth. [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 siderophloia Benth. [family MYRTACEAE], Fl. Austral. 3: 220 (1867); Dale, Introd. Trees Uganda: 40 (1953); Fl. Austral. 19: 405, fig. 104/m–n (1988). Type: Australia, Queensland, Moreton Bay, Cunningham 51 (K!, lecto., BM!, FRI, NSW, W, isolecto., chosen by Johnson in Contr. New S. Wales Herb. 3: 117 (1962))
Information
Tree to 45 m with rough grey to grey-black ironbark on trunk and at least larger branches [hard, deeply furrowed] but sometimes smooth above. Juvenile leaves ovate to broadly lanceolate; adult lanceolate, 8–15 cm long, 1–2 cm wide; petiole terete, 1–1.7 cm long. Umbels 7-flowered in terminal panicles; peduncle quadrangular, 6–12[23] mm long; pedicels [0]2–4 mm long. Buds fusiform; operculum conical, 3–4 mm long and wide, sometimes rostrate. Calyx-tube obconic, 2–4 mm long, 3–4 mm wide. Fruits obconical, [4]6–8 mm long, [4.5]5–7[7.5] mm wide with narrow descending disc and usually 4 exserted valves [usually rugose and ribbed]. Fig. 10/38.
Range
DISTR. U 2; K 3–5; T 3?
Distribution
UGANDA Ankole District Ankole 1930-31 fide DaleKENYA Widely recorded by Verdcourt (1963)TANZANIA Doubtfully recorded from Lushoto District: Amani
Notes
No East African material at Kew or EA.

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