Flora of Victoria

Mallee or tree to 25 m tall; bark at base usually coarse, loose, fibrous, with most of trunk or stems smooth, yellowish. Juvenile leaves sessile, opposite for many pairs sometimes with opposing leaf bases connate, ovate to broadly lanceolate, to 10 cm long, 7 cm wide, blue-green, green or glaucous; adult leaves petiolate, lanceolate, 12–20 cm long, 2–3.5 cm wide, concolorous, slightly glossy, green; intramarginal vein remote from edge; reticulation moderate to dense, often obscure; with numerous, island and intersectional oil glands. Inflorescences axillary, unbranched; peduncles to 1.1 cm long, 3-flowered; buds pedicellate, ovoid or globular, to 1.5 cm long, 0.8 cm diam., no scar (2 opercula intact); operculum conical or beaked; stamens inflexed with outer staminodes; anthers adnate, cuboid; ovules in 4, 6 or 8 vertical rows; flowers white or pink. Fruit pedicellate, truncate-globose; staminal ring broad, deciduous; disc descending; valves 4–6, below rim; seed brown, irregularly ovoid and slightly flattened, surface shallowly reticulate, hilum ventral.

Brid, CVU, DunT, GipP, Glep, Gold, GGr, HSF, LoM, MuF, MuM, NIS, OtP, VRiv, VVP, Wim.

6 subspecies, all in Victoria.

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, 2019-04-15

Key to the subspecies of Eucalyptus leucoxylon

life Life

kingdom Plantae

phylum Tracheophyta

class Magnoliopsida

superorder Rosanae

order Myrtales

family Myrtaceae

genus Eucalyptus

Higher taxa

species Eucalyptus leucoxylon F.Muell.

Subordinate taxa

subspecies Eucalyptus leucoxylon subsp. bellarinensis Rule

subspecies Eucalyptus leucoxylon subsp. connata Rule

subspecies Eucalyptus leucoxylon subsp. leucoxylon

subspecies Eucalyptus leucoxylon subsp. megalocarpa Boland

subspecies Eucalyptus leucoxylon subsp. pruinosa (F.Muell. ex Miq.) Boland

subspecies Eucalyptus leucoxylon subsp. stephaniae Rule

Victoria

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

Bioregion	Occurrence status	Establishment means
Lowan Mallee	present	native
Murray Mallee	present	native
Wimmera	present	native
Glenelg Plain	present	native
Bridgewater	present	native
Victorian Volcanic Plain	present	native
Victorian Riverina	present	native
Murray Fans	present	native
Gippsland Plain	present	native
Otway Plain	present	native
Goldfields	present	native
Central Victorian Uplands	present	native
Greater Grampians	present	native
Dundas Tablelands	present	native
Northern Inland Slopes	present	native
Highlands-Southern Fall	present	native

Bioregions of Victoria

State distribution

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

Eucalyptus leucoxylon F.Muell.

Yellow Gum

Victoria

State distribution