Flora of Victoria

Tree to 40 m tall; bark rough, fibrous for lower 1–6 m, smooth above. Juvenile leaves petiolate, soon alternate, ovate to oblong or orbicular, crenulate, to 14 cm long, 8 cm wide, discolorous, glossy, green, glandular; adult leaves petiolate, alternate, ovate to lanceolate, to 15 cm long, 2.5 cm wide, more or less concolorous, glossy, green; reticulation dense, with numerous, mostly intersectional oil glands. Inflorescence axillary, unbranched, peduncle to 1.2 cm long, 7-flowered; buds pedicellate, diamond-shaped to slightly elongate, to 1 cm long, 0.5 cm diam., scar present; operculum conical or beaked; stamens inflexed; anthers dorsifixed, cuneate; ovules in 4 vertical rows; flowers white. Fruit pedicellate, obconical to cupular, to 0.8 cm long, 0.7 cm diam.; disc level to descending; valves 3 or 4, rim level or slightly exserted; seed black, flattened-ellipsoid, lacunose, very shallowly reticulate, hilum ventral. Flowers summer–autumn.

Brid, CVU, EGL, EGU, GipP, Glep, Gold, HNF, HSF, NIS, OtP, OtR, VRiv, VVP, WPro. Also Tas. It occurs in two areas, on the northern foothills of the Otway Ranges, and north of the Great Dividing Range in the Bells Reef-Trentham area.

In Tasmania, where the typical form of the species is found, the adult leaves are distinctly discolorous. Eucalyptus brookeriana and E. strzeleckii have been confused with E. ovata, but E. brookeriana at least, differs in the high cineole content of the leaves compared with the very low oil yield (particularly cineole) of E. ovata. Intermediates between E. ovata and E. brookeriana are discussed under E. ovata.

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, 2019-02-22

life Life

kingdom Plantae

phylum Tracheophyta

class Magnoliopsida

superorder Rosanae

order Myrtales

family Myrtaceae

genus Eucalyptus

Higher taxa

species Eucalyptus brookeriana A.M.Gray

Victoria

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

Bioregion	Occurrence status	Establishment means
Glenelg Plain	present	native
Bridgewater	present	native
Victorian Volcanic Plain	present	native
Victorian Riverina	present	native
Gippsland Plain	present	native
Otway Plain	present	native
Goldfields	present	native
Central Victorian Uplands	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

Bioregions of Victoria

State distribution

State
South Australia
Australian Capital Territory
Victoria
Tasmania