Eucalyptus lansdowneana
| Red-flowered mallee box | |
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| Eucalyptus lansdowneana, Melbourne | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| (unranked): | Angiosperms |
| (unranked): | Eudicots |
| (unranked): | Rosids |
| Order: | Myrtales |
| Family: | Myrtaceae |
| Genus: | Eucalyptus |
| Species: | E. lansdowneana |
| Binomial name | |
| Eucalyptus lansdowneana | |
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| E. lansdowneana, field distribution | |
Eucalyptus lansdowneana, Red-Flowered mallee box, is a slender stemmed, straggly mallee with smooth grey over creamy-white bark. Adult leaves are stalked, lanceolate to broad lanceolate, to 15 x 3 cm, glossy, green to yellow-green.
Red and pinkish-red flowers appear in late winter to mid spring.
Distribution is limited to the rocky hills of the Gawler Range, Eyre Peninsula, South Australia .
The name lansdowneana was previously also applied to another species of lower Eyre Peninsula and Kangaroo Island; this is the distantly mallee species, E. albopurpurea, with white, pink or mauve flowers[1] and which is grown widely as an ornamental, particularly in Perth. The true E. lansdowneana is a beautiful, slender mallee with large, glossy leaves and red flowers.[2]
References
- ↑ Nicolle, Dean (2000). "New Taxa of Eucalyptus Informal Subgenus Symphyomyrtus (Myrtaceae), Endemic to South Australia" (PDF). Journal of the Adelaide Botanic Garden 19: 83–94. Retrieved 21 March 2015.
- ↑ Brooker, M.I.H. & Kleinig, D.A. Field Guide to Eucalyptus, Bloomings, Melbourne 2001
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