Eucalyptus baxteri
Eucalyptus baxteri is a flowering plant within the myrtle family ( Myrtaceae ). It occurs in the extreme southeast of New South Wales and in the southern half of Victoria and south-east of South Australia, where it is called "Brown Stringybark ".
Description
Appearance and leaf
Eucalyptus baxteri grows as a tree reaching heights of growth of up to 40 meters. The bark remains on the entire tree is gray to red-brown and fibrous. Oil glands there is neither in the marrow of the young branches still in the bark.
In Eucalyptus baxteri is available Heterophyllie. The leaves are always divided into petiole and leaf blade. The petiole is narrow flattened or channel-shaped with a length of 10 to 20 mm. In young specimens the leaf blade is broad - lanceolate, glossy green and hairy. At middle-aged specimens, the glossy green leaf blade is also broad - lanceolate, with a length of about 13 cm and a width of about 8 cm, straight and entire. The same color on top and bottom glossy - green leaves on adult specimens are lanceolate to broad - lanceolate, relatively thick, curved like a sickle with a length of 7 to 13 cm and a width of 1.5 to 3.0 cm and have a rounded or pointed upper end. The raised lateral nerves go in a sharp or very sharp angle in average distances from the median nerve. The cotyledons ( cotyledons ) are kidney-shaped.
Inflorescence and flower
Constantly on page 3-14 mm long and in cross-section terete or angular inflorescence stem stand together seven to eleven flowers in a simple inflorescence. The flower stems are terete, if present, up to 4 mm long. The non- blue-green floured or frosted flower buds are club-shaped with a length of 5 to 8 mm and a diameter of 4 to 5 mm. The sepals form a calyptra, which remains available until flowering ( anthesis ). The warty calyptra conical, shorter than or as long as the smooth or warty flower cup ( hypanthium ) and as wide as this one. The flowers are white or off- white.
Fruit
The pedunculated or sedentary fruit is spherical with a length of 6 to 11 mm and a diameter of 8 to 16 mm or hemispherical and four to fünffächrig. The disc is flat or depressed, the fruit trays are at the height of the edge or stand out easily.
Occurrence
The natural range of Eucalyptus baxteri is the extreme south-east of New South Wales, the entire southern half of Victoria, and South Australia in the south-east and the area around Adelaide.
Eucalyptus baxteri grows locally common in moist sclerophyll forests on relatively nutrient-poor clay soils and on the hills behind the coast.
System
The first description was in 1867 by George Bentham var under the name ( basionym ) Eucalyptus santalifolia? baxteri Benth. in Flora Australiensis, Volume 3, pp. 207 The type material has the label "S coast, probably Kangaroo Iceland, Baxter ( Herb. R.Br. )" on. The new combination to Eucalyptus baxteri ( Benth. ) Maiden & Blakely ex JMBlack in 1926 by John McConnell Black under the title Meliaceae - Scrophulariaceae in Flora of South Australia, Volume 3, pp. 415 more synonyms for Eucalyptus baxteri ( Benth. ). Maiden & Blakely ex JMBlack are: Eucalyptus baxteri ( Benth. ) Maiden & Blakely ex JMBlack var baxteri, Eucalyptus baxteri var pedicellata JMBlack, Eucalyptus baxteri R.Br. ex Benth. nom. inval. , Eucalyptus capitellata latifolia Benth.
Intergradationen of Eucalyptus baxteri with Eucalyptus and Eucalyptus serraensis verrucata are known. Eucalyptus Eucalyptus hybrids baxteri × diversifolia were found in the southwest of Victoria.