Eucalyptus mannifera subsp. mannifera
Brittle GumTree to 25 m tall; bark smooth, white, powdery, or with patches of yellow or red, often highly coloured in late summer-early autumn. Juvenile leaves shortly petiolate, opposite but soon becoming alternate, linear, falcate or narrowly oblong, to 10 cm long, 1.3 cm wide, blue-green to glaucous; adult leaves petiolate, alternate, narrowly lanceolate to lanceolate, 8–15 cm long, 1–1.5 cm wide, concolorous, dull, blue-green to grey-green; reticulation dense, with numerous, mostly island oil glands. Inflorescences axillary, unbranched; peduncles to 0.6 cm long, 7-flowered; buds pedicellate, broadly fusiform to ovoid, to 0.5 cm long, 0.3 cm diam., scar present; operculum conical to hemispherical; stamens inflexed; anthers dorsifixed, cuneate; ovules in 4 vertical rows; flowers white. Fruit pedicellate, hemispherical, to 0.5 cm long, 0.4cm diam.; disc raised-annular; valves 3, slightly exserted; seed grey-brown, flattened-ellipsoid, shallowly reticulate, lacunose, hilum ventral. Flowers Jan.–Feb.
VVP, VRiv, GipP, OtP, CVU, NIS, EGL, EGU, HSF, HNF, Strz, MonT, HFE, VAlp. Widespread on poor, usually shallow, rocky soils in the north-east and east, e.g. Mt Timbertop, Mt Baranduda, Paradise Falls, Mt Granya, Mt Buffalo, Gelantipy, Mottle Range, Bonang, occasionally extending to subalpine areas (e.g. Brumby Point, Nunniong Plateau) where typically a small, crooked tree.
Brooker, M.I.H.; Slee, A.V. (1996). Eucalyptus. In: Walsh, N.G.; Entwisle, T.J., Flora of Victoria Vol. 3, Dicotyledons Winteraceae to Myrtaceae, pp. 946–1009. Inkata Press, Melbourne.
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