Flora of Victoria

Tree to 40 m tall; bark rough over trunk and to the smaller branches, stringy. Juvenile leaves sessile, opposite for few pairs, discolorous, scabrous on midrib and margin, then petiolate, becoming alternate, ovate to lanceolate, oblique, glabrous, to 16 cm long, 5 cm wide, glossy, green; adult leaves petiolate, alternate, broadly lanceolate to lanceolate, 8–13 cm long, 1.5–2 cm wide, slightly discolorous, glossy, green; reticulation sparse, with very numerous, island oil glands. Inflorescences axillary, unbranched; peduncles to 1.8 cm long, 7–11-flowered; buds pedicellate, clavate, to 0.7 cm long, 0.4 cm diam., no scar (single operculum); operculum conical to hemispherical; stamens irregularly flexed; anthers dorsifixed, reniform; ovules in 2 vertical rows; flowers white. Fruit pedicellate, hemispherical to truncate-globose, to 1 cm long, 1.2 cm diam.; disc descending; valves 4, near rim; seed dark brown, glossy, smooth, pyramidal but distorted by one curved face, hilum terminal. Flowers Jan.–.

CVU, EGL, EGU, GipP, HFE, HSF, NIS, Strz, VVP, WPro. Also NSW. Occurs on sandy loams of plains and foothills from the eastern Strzelecki Range and Wilsons Promontory to the Howe Range.

Probably the least evolved of the stringybarks having mostly smooth juvenile leaves, slightly discolorous adult leaves, and prominently pedicellate buds and fruit.

Intermediates between Eucalyptus muelleriana and E. macrorhyncha have been observed in the Warrandyte/Lilydale area (see E. ×brevirostris).

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, 2018-06-21

life Life

kingdom Plantae

phylum Tracheophyta

class Magnoliopsida

superorder Rosanae

order Myrtales

family Myrtaceae

genus Eucalyptus

Higher taxa

species Eucalyptus muelleriana A.W.Howitt

Victoria

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

Bioregion	Occurrence status	Establishment means
Victorian Volcanic Plain	present	native
Gippsland Plain	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
Strzelecki Ranges	present	native
Highlands-Far East	present	native

Bioregions of Victoria

State distribution

State
Western Australia
New South Wales
Australian Capital Territory
Victoria

Eucalyptus muelleriana A.W.Howitt

Yellow Stringybark

Victoria

State distribution