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Eucalyptus sideroxylon

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Identification
Isotype of Eucalyptus sideroxylon Woolls [family MYRTACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by S. Chippendale, Eucalyptus leucoxylon F.Muell. [family MYRTACEAE ]
Related name
  • Eucalyptus sideroxylon
  • Eucalyptus leucoxylon

Flora

Entry for EUCALYPTUS sideroxylon Woolls [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 sideroxylon Woolls [family MYRTACEAE], in Proc. Linn. Soc. New S. Wales 11: 859 (1887); Dale, Introd. Trees Uganda: 40 (1953); Fl. Austral. 19: 425, fig. 109/c–d (1988); Friis in Fl. Eth. 2 (2): 106, fig. 72.53 (1996). Type: Australia, New South Wales, Lachlan R., Cunningham 205 (K!, holo., BM!, iso.)
Information
Tree to 35 m with black [jet black or very dark red-black] hard deeply furrowed bark throughout or on trunk and larger branches and white smooth bark on upper branches. Juvenile leaves linear to lanceolate (or ovate); adult grey, lanceolate, 7–14 cm long, 1.2–1.8 cm wide; petiole terete, 1–2 cm long. Umbels [3]7-flowered; peduncle quadrangular to terete, [0.5]0.7–2 cm long, pedicels 0.2–1.5[2] cm long. Operculum 3–5 mm long, 4–5 mm wide. Calyx-tube 4–6 mm long, 4–5 mm wide. Fruits ovoid, subglobular or urceolate, 5–11 mm long, 6–10 mm wide with narrow descending disc obscured by broad, caducous staminal ring, and 5 included valves. Fig. 10/39, p. 49.
Range
DISTR. U 2; K 3–5; T 3, 6
Distribution
UGANDA Ankole District Ankole fide DaleKENYA Uasin Gishu District Kitale, Nov. 1953, Pudden 33 & 34!TANZANIA Morogoro District Uluguru Mts, Chigurufumi Forest Reserve, Mar. 1955, Semsei 2008!
Notes
Yields an extremely durable strong wood. Subsp. tricarpa L.A.S. Johnson has 3-flowered umbels; Greenway 8760, Kenya, Karura Forest Reserve compt 15, 424 (1909) and Siemens 26 from K 3, Auea Spring (not traced) would appear to be this.

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