Flora of Victoria

Tree to 70 m tall; bark smooth, grey or greenish, shedding in long strips. Juvenile leaves sessile, opposite for many nodes, elliptic to ovate, to 17 cm long, 8 cm wide, glaucous; adult leaves petiolate, alternate, lanceolate to narrowly lanceolate, margins entire, 13–24 cm long, 1.5–2.5 cm wide, concolorous, glossy, green; reticulation dense, broken, oil glands often obscure. Inflorescences axillary, unbranched; peduncles to 1 cm long, 7-flowered; buds sessile, cylindric to broadly fusiform, to 0.7 cm long, 0.3 cm diam., scar present; operculum conical; stamens inflexed; anthers dorsifixed, cuneate; ovules in 4 vertical rows; flowers white. Fruit sessile, cupular, to 0.7 cm long, 0.6 cm diam.; disc descending; valves 3 or 4, rim level; seed brown-black, ellipsoid, lacunose, shallowly reticulate, hilum ventral. Flowers Jan.–Mar.

EGL, EGU, HNF, HSF, MonT, Strz, VAlp, VVP. Also NSW. In Victoria occurring at high altitudes on the Great Dividing Range from the Blue Range, Mt Monda and Mt Torbreck east to Mt Selma and Mt Wellington, extending south to Mt Erica, but with an outlying easterly population at Mt Kaye.

The commercially valuable Shining Gum has recently been shown to consist of two species, viz. E. nitens as described above and the more restricted E. denticulata.

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.

life Life

kingdom Plantae

phylum Tracheophyta

class Magnoliopsida

superorder Rosanae

order Myrtales

family Myrtaceae

genus Eucalyptus

Higher taxa

species Eucalyptus nitens (H.Deane & Maiden) Maiden

Victoria

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

Bioregion	Occurrence status	Establishment means
Victorian Volcanic Plain	present	native
East Gippsland Lowlands	present	native
East Gippsland Uplands	present	native
Highlands-Southern Fall	present	native
Highlands-Northern Fall	present	native
Strzelecki Ranges	present	native
Monaro Tablelands	present	native
Victorian Alps	present	native

Bioregions of Victoria

State distribution

State
New South Wales
Australian Capital Territory
Victoria
Tasmania