Eucalyptus fasciculosa

Eucalyptus fasciculosa is a flowering plant within the myrtle family ( Myrtaceae ). It occurs in the southeast of South Australia and in the extreme southwest of Victoria, where it is " White Gum ," " Gum Pink ", " Gum Scrub " or " Gum Hill " called.

Description

Appearance and leaf

Eucalyptus fasciculosa grows a tree. The bark is smooth on the entire tree remains at the lower part of the stem or the entire tribe. It is gray, gray - brown or brown, has white spots and fibrous integrally. Both in the marrow of the young branches as well as in the bark, there are oil glands.

In Eucalyptus fasciculosa is available Heterophyllie. The leaves are always divided into petiole and leaf blade. At middle-aged specimens, the leaf blade is lanceolate to ovate, straight, entire, dull and gray-green. The on upper and lower sides of the same color dull gray - green leaf blade in adult specimens are lanceolate, curved like a sickle, relatively thick and may be tapered to Spreitenbasis out or run dull; its upper end may be acute, obtuse or rounded trained. The raised or barely visible lateral nerves go off at an acute or obtuse angle from the midrib. The cotyledons ( cotyledons ) are wrong - kidney-shaped.

Inflorescence and flower

Lateral or terminal on a terete in cross section inflorescence stem are about siebenblütige partial inflorescences in total composite inflorescences. The flower buds are egg -, club- or spindle- shaped and floured not blue or green frosting. The sepals form a calyptra, which drops early. The smooth calyptra conical, as long as the smooth flower cup ( hypanthium ) and narrower than this. The flowers are white or off- white.

Fruit

The fruit is egg-shaped. The disc is pressed, the fruit trays are included.

Occurrence

The natural range of Eucalyptus fasciculosa is the South East of South Australia, Adelaide and south of it, and the extreme south-west of Victoria.

Taxonomy

The first description of Eucalyptus fasciculosa in 1855 by Ferdinand von Mueller, entitled Description of fifty new Australian plants, chiefly from the colony of Victoria in Transactions and Proceedings of the Victorian Institute for the Advancement of Science, Volume 1, page 34 The type material has the label "on barrn ridges along St. Vincent 's Gulf, on Gawler River, in the Mount Lofty Ranges and Bungle Ranges, and on Encounter Bay " on. A synonym for Eucalyptus fasciculosa F.Muell. Eucalyptus paniculata var is fasciculosa ( F.Muell. ) Benth.