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 macrorhyncha F.Muell. ex Benth.
Reference:
F.Muell. ex Benth., Fl. Austral. 3: 207 (1867).
Type:
T: Macalister River, Vic., F.Mueller; syn: MEL; near Mt Ligar, Vic., Jan. 1863, F.Mueller; syn: MEL; Avon R., Vic., Mar. 1854, F.Mueller; syn: K, MEL; Newfield, Melbourne, Vic., 9 May 1856, F.Adamson 471; syn: K.
E. macrorhyncha var. minor Blakely, Key Eucalypts 184 (1934). T: Bumble Ra., N.S.W., Apr. 1932, W.F.Blakely s.n.; syn: NSW; Canowindra, N.S.W., 13 July 1931, M.Dwyer; syn: NSW; Pilliga State Forest, N.S.W., Oct. 1911, E.H.F.Swain; syn: NSW; Wolongawah, N.S.W., 21 Apr. 1932, W.A.W. de Beuzeville 484, 486; syn: NSW; Wolongawah, N.S.W., 18 Sept. 1916, W.A.W. de Beuzeville s.n.; syn: NSW; Tumut, N.S.W., 1895, J.H.Maiden s.n.; syn: NSW; Tumut, N.S.W., Oct. 1899, W.W.Froggatt s.n.; syn: NSW; Tumut, N.S.W., 19 May 1927, E.Cheel s.n.; syn: NSW.
[E. scyphoidea Naudin ex Maiden, Proc. Linn. Soc. New South Wales 28: 899 (1904), nom. inval. - nom. nud. T: cultivated at Villa Thuret, 1889, C.Naudin s.n.; holo: P]
Description:
Tree 12-35 m. Bark grey-brown. Juvenile leaves alternate, ovate, oblique, green, concolorous. Adult leaves lanceolate, green, concolorous; uncinate; petiole flattened or channelled. Umbels 3-11-flowered; peduncle terete, angular or flattened. Buds fusiform; operculum conical or rostrate; hypanthium obconical. Fruits subglobular to globular; disc broad, convex, ascending; valves 3 or 4, exserted.
Distribution:
Occurs in eastern N.S.W. and Vic., and in south- eastern S.A.