Flora of Victoria

Tree to 30 m tall; bark smooth, usually with scribbles. Juvenile leaves sessile, opposite for few pairs then petiolate, alternate, ovate or broadly falcate, pendulous, to 16 cm long, 6 cm wide, glaucous; adult leaves petiolate, alternate, broadly lanceolate to lanceolate, to 16 cm long, 3 cm wide, concolorous, glossy, green to grey-green or olive-green; side veins more or less parallel to midrib; reticulation sparse, with numerous, island oil glands. Inflorescences axillary, unbranched; peduncles to 1.6 cm long, 11 (or more)-flowered; buds clavate, to 0.9 cm long, 0.5 cm diam., no scar (single operculum); operculum hemispherical or conical; stamens mostly inflexed; anthers dorsifixed, reniform; ovules in 2–4 vertical rows; flowers white. Fruit more or less sessile, cupular to obconical, to 1.3 cm long, 1.5 cm diam.; disc level to descending; valves 3(4), rim level; seed blackish, glossy, smooth, pyramidal but distorted by one curved face, hilum terminal.

CVU, DunT, EGL, EGU, GipP, Glep, Gold, GGr, HFE, HNF, HSF, MonT, MuM, NIS, OtP, SnM, Strz, VAlp, VRiv, VVP, WaP, WPro, Wim.

6 subspecies, all present in Victoria.

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, 2020-12-30

Key to the subspecies of Eucalyptus pauciflora

life Life

kingdom Plantae

phylum Tracheophyta

class Magnoliopsida

superorder Rosanae

order Myrtales

family Myrtaceae

genus Eucalyptus

Higher taxa

species Eucalyptus pauciflora Sieber ex Spreng.

Subordinate taxa

subspecies Eucalyptus pauciflora subsp. acerina Rule

subspecies Eucalyptus pauciflora subsp. debeuzevillei (Maiden) L.A.S.Johnson & Blaxell

subspecies Eucalyptus pauciflora subsp. hedraia Rule

subspecies Eucalyptus pauciflora subsp. niphophila (Maiden & Blakely) L.A.S.Johnson & Blaxell

subspecies Eucalyptus pauciflora subsp. parvifructa Rule

subspecies Eucalyptus pauciflora subsp. pauciflora

Victoria

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

Bioregion	Occurrence status	Establishment means
Murray Mallee	present	native
Wimmera	present	native
Glenelg Plain	present	native
Victorian Volcanic Plain	present	native
Victorian Riverina	present	native
Gippsland Plain	present	native
Otway Plain	present	native
Warrnambool Plain	present	native
Goldfields	present	native
Central Victorian Uplands	present	native
Greater Grampians	present	native
Dundas Tablelands	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
Strzelecki Ranges	present	native
Monaro Tablelands	present	native
Highlands-Far East	present	native
Victorian Alps	present	native
Snowy Mountains	present	native

Bioregions of Victoria

State distribution

State
South Australia
Queensland
New South Wales
Australian Capital Territory
Victoria
Tasmania

Eucalyptus pauciflora Sieber ex Spreng.

Snow Gum

Victoria

State distribution