Flora of Victoria

Tree to 90 m tall; bark rough to the small branches, stringy. Juvenile leaves petiolate, opposite for few pairs then alternate, broadly ovate, oblique, pendulous, to 19 cm long, 8 cm wide, glossy, green; adult leaves petiolate, alternate, broadly lanceolate, oblique, 10–13 cm long, 1.5–3.5 cm wide, concolorous, glossy, green; reticulation moderate, with numerous island oil glands or glands irregular or obscure. Inflorescences axillary, unbranched; peduncles to 1.5 cm long, 7–15(or more)-flowered; buds pedicellate, clavate, to 0.7 cm long, 0.4 cm diam., no scar (single operculum); operculum hemispherical; stamens irregularly flexed; anthers dorsifixed, reniform; ovules in 2 vertical rows; flowers white. Fruit pedicellate, barrel-shaped or truncate-globose, to 1.1 cm long, 0.9 cm diam.; disc descending; valves 3 or 4, below rim; seed dark brown, glossy, smooth, pyramidal but distorted by one curved face, hilum terminal. Flowers Dec.–Mar.

Brid, CVU, DunT, EGL, EGU, GipP, Glep, Gold, GGr, HFE, HNF, HSF, MonT, NIS, OtP, OtR, SnM, Strz, VAlp, VRiv, VVP, WaP, WPro, Wim. Also SA, Qld, NSW, Tas. Widely distributed across southern Victoria and extending inland to the northern fall of the Great Dividing Range, and the mountains of south and east Gippsland. Mainly a species of cool, well-watered mountain forests, but also common in sandy heaths of the Otway coast west to South Australia.

Hybridizes with E. regnans (see notes under that species) and possibly E. macrorhyncha (see E. ×brevirostris).

Source: Brooker, M.I.H.; Slee, A.V. (1996). Eucalyptus. In: Walsh, N.G.; Entwisle, T.J. (eds), Flora of Victoria Vol. 3, Dicotyledons Winteraceae to Myrtaceae. Inkata Press, Melbourne.

Updated by: Val Stajsic, 2018-07-02

life Life

kingdom Plantae

phylum Tracheophyta

class Magnoliopsida

superorder Rosanae

order Myrtales

family Myrtaceae

genus Eucalyptus

Higher taxa

species Eucalyptus obliqua L’Hér.

Victoria

**Source:** AVH (2014). *Australia's Virtual Herbarium*, Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria, <http://avh.chah.org.au>. Find Eucalyptus obliqua in AVH ; *Victorian Biodiversity Atlas*, © The State of Victoria, Department of Environment and Primary Industries (published Dec. 2014) Find Eucalyptus obliqua in Victorian Biodiversity Atlas

Bioregion	Occurrence status	Establishment means
Wimmera	present	native
Glenelg Plain	present	native
Bridgewater	present	native
Victorian Volcanic Plain	present	native
Victorian Riverina	present	native
Gippsland Plain	present	native
Otway Plain	present	native
Warrnambool Plain	present	native
Goldfields	present	native
Central Victorian Uplands	present	native
Greater Grampians	present	native
Dundas Tablelands	present	native
Northern Inland Slopes	present	native
East Gippsland Lowlands	present	native
East Gippsland Uplands	present	native
Wilsons Promontory	present	native
Highlands-Southern Fall	present	native
Highlands-Northern Fall	present	native
Otway Ranges	present	native
Strzelecki Ranges	present	native
Monaro Tablelands	present	native
Highlands-Far East	present	native
Victorian Alps	present	native
Snowy Mountains	present	native

Bioregions of Victoria

State distribution

State
South Australia
Queensland
New South Wales
Australian Capital Territory
Victoria
Tasmania

Eucalyptus obliqua L’Hér.

Messmate Stringybark

Victoria

State distribution