Trans. & Proc. Victorian Inst. Advancem. Sci. 1: 33 (1855)
Taxonomic status:Accepted
Occurrence status:Present
Establishment means:Native
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.
Bioregion | Occurrence status | Establishment means | |
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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 |
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Western Australia |
South Australia |
Queensland |
New South Wales |
Australian Capital Territory |
Victoria |
Tasmania |