Eucalyptus melliodora
Eucalyptus Melliodora
Eucalyptus Melliodora is a flowering plant within the myrtle family ( Myrtaceae ). It comes in southeast Queensland, in the east and in the center of New South Wales, and to the north, east and south of Victoria before and is there " Yellow Box ", "Yellow Ironbox ", " Yellow Jacket ", " Honey Box " called " Honey- scented Gum" or " Dargan ".
Description
Appearance and leaf
Eucalyptus Melliodora grows as a tree reaching heights of growth of up to 30 meters. The bark remains on the lower part of the stem or the entire trunk and larger branches is gray, pale brown or yellow - brown with white spots and fibrous integrally. On the upper parts of the tree is gray, gray - brown or yellow and peels off in short ribbons. The small branches have green bark. Neither in the marrow of the young branches still in the bark, there are oil glands.
In Eucalyptus Melliodora is available Heterophyllie. The leaves are always divided into petiole and leaf blade. The leaf stalks are 10 to 15 mm long. In young specimens the leaf blade is elliptical and pale green or gray-green. In middle-aged specimens, the leaf blade is at a length of about 11 cm and a width of about 5 cm elliptic, straight, entire, dull and green or gray-green. The on upper and lower sides of the same color green or matt gray - green leaf blades of adult specimens are bent narrow - lanceolate or lanceolate, falcate at a length of 6 to 14 cm and a width of 0.8 to 1.8 cm, tapering to Spreitenbasis back and have a pointed upper end. The barely visible lateral nerves go at large distances from an acute angle from the midrib. The cotyledons ( cotyledons ) are wrong - kidney-shaped.
Inflorescence and flower
Page Constantly terete at one at a length of 3 to 11 mm and a diameter of up to 3 mm in cross section, narrowly flattened or angular inflorescence stem are in a simple inflorescence about seven flowers together. The 2-9 mm long flower stems are terete. The non- blue-green floured or frosted flower buds are club- or egg-shaped with a length of 5 to 8 mm and a diameter of 3 to 4 mm. The sepals form a calyptra, which remains present during the opening of the flower ( anthesis ). The smooth calyptra conical and sometimes beak -shaped, as long as or shorter than the smooth or ribbed flower cup ( hypanthium ) and as wide as or narrower than this. The outer stamens are infertile. The flowers are white or off- white.
Fruit
The stalked fruit is spherical with a length and a diameter of 4-7 per mm, hemispherical or ovoid and fünffächerig. The disc is pressed, the fruit trays are included.
Occurrence
The natural range of Eucalyptus Melliodora is the Great Dividing Range in south-east Queensland, in the east and in the center of New South Wales, and to the north, east and south of Victoria.
Eucalyptus grows Melliodora widespread and locally common in grassy, open forests on moderately fertile soils, often on sandy soils in valleys or watercourses.
System
The first description of Eucalyptus Melliodora in 1843 by Johannes Conrad Schauer in repertory Botanices Systematicae, Volume 2 (5 ), pp. 924 The type material has the inscription " In Novae Cambriae australis plagis interioribus occidentum versus frequens " on. The specific epithet Melliodora is composed of the Latin words "mel " honey and " odor" of smell together.
Synonyms of Eucalyptus Melliodora A.Cunn. ex showers are Eucalyptus caerulescens Naudin, Eucalyptus forsythii Maiden, Eucalyptus patentiflora Miq. , Eucalyptus Melliodora A.Cunn. ex Schauer var Melliodora, Eucalyptus Melliodora var brachycarpa Blakely and Eucalyptus Melliodora var elliptocarpa Blakely, Eucalyptus argentea Cordier ex Blakely nom. illeg.
Natural hybrids forms Melliodora Eucalyptus Eucalyptus subsp albens, Eucalyptus caleyi. caleyi, Eucalyptus and Eucalyptus crebra sideroxylon. In "Australian Plant Name Index" is mentioned as a hybrid variety: Eucalyptus Melliodora var × Murrurundi Blakely.