An Introduction to the Eucalypts [This information taken from - Chippendale, G.M. Eucalyptus. In: Chippendale, G.M. (1988). Flora of Australia Vol. 19, Myrtaceae, Eucalyptus, Angophora, Australian Government Publising Service, Canberra.]

Eucalyptus dalrympleana Maiden

Reference:

Maiden, Forest Fl. New South Wales 7: 137 (1920).

Type:

T: Peppercorn Plain, Yarrangobilly, N.S.W., Jan. 1920, W.A.W. de Beuzeville 1, 2, 3; holo: NSW.

Description:

Tree to 40 m. Bark smooth throughout, blotched white and grey to yellow-white, and sometimes pink, green to olive, and often with c. 1 m of accumulated undecorticated bark at trunk base. Juvenile leaves opposite, sessile, amplexicaul, orbicular to ovate, light green to subglaucous, concolorous. Adult leaves alternate, narrowly lanceolate to lanceolate, acuminate, sometimes undulate, green, often shining, concolorous; lateral veins conspicuous, at 30°-45°; intramarginal vein up to 1 mm from margin; petiole terete, 15-27 mm long. Umbels 3- or 7-flowered; peduncle angular or slightly flattened; pedicels absent or 1-4 mm long. Buds ovoid; operculum conical or sometimes almost hemispherical; hypanthium hemispherical to obconical. Fruits hemispherical, ovoid or campanulate; disc moderately broad, ascending, convex or sometimes ąlevel; valves 3 or 4, exserted.

Distribution:

Occurs on the tablelands of N.S.W., extending to Vic. and eastern Tas.

Notes:

Most closely related to E. rubida but is a larger tree with greener juvenile leaves.

There are 2 subspecies. Only subsp. dalrympleana occurs in the A.C.T.

Umbels 3-flowered, subsp. dalrympleana.