Eucalyptus bunyip
RuleTree to 40 m tall; bark smooth, whitish to light brown or yellowish-orange, with a short stocking of rough, somewhat corky bark at base. Mature crown with adult and intermediate leaves. Juvenile leaves petiolate, soon alternate, ovate to ovate-lanceolate or elliptic, to 6 cm long, 3 cm wide, discolorous, somewhat glossy, green, to blue-green, glandular; adult leaves petiolate, alternate, ovate to broadly lanceolate, undulate, to 17 cm long, 3.2 cm wide, concolorous, glossy, green; new growth glaucous; reticulation dense, with numerous, mostly island oil glands. Inflorescence axillary, unbranched, peduncle to 1.4 cm long, 7-flowered; buds long-pedicellate, clavate or slightly diamond-shaped, to 1 cm long, 0.35 cm diam., scar present; operculum shortly rostrate; stamens irregularly flexed; anthers dorsifixed, oblong; ovules in 4 vertical rows; flowers white. Fruit long-pedicellate, more or less hemispherical, to 0.6 cm long, 0.5 cm diam.; disc slightly raised; valves 3 or 4, rim level or slightly exserted; seed dark grey, flattened-ellipsoid, lacunose, very shallowly reticulate, hilum ventral. Flowers autumn.
GipP, HSF. Highly localised, occurring in narrow, seasonally waterlogged creek valleys north-west of Tonimbuk.
Distinguished from Eucalyptus strzeleckii and E. camphora by its relatively small fruits that are borne on long slender pedicels (that are often longer than the fruit) and the mature canopy consisting of adult and subadult leaves.