Syst. Veg. 4 (2): 195 (1827) APNI
Taxonomic status:Accepted
Occurrence status:Present
Establishment means:Native
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.
Bioregion | Occurrence status | Establishment means | |
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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 |
State |
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South Australia |
Queensland |
New South Wales |
Australian Capital Territory |
Victoria |
Tasmania |