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Eucalyptus banksii Maiden
Family Myrtaceae
Common name: Tenterfield Woollybutt

Eucalyptus banksii Maiden APNI*

Description: Tree to 30 m high; bark persistent on trunk and larger branches, grey with whitish patches, fibrous-flaky, smooth above, grey, shedding in short ribbons.

Juvenile leaves opposite, orbiculate (cordate), dull grey-green or glaucous.

Adult leaves disjunct, lanceolate, 12–20 cm long, 2–3 cm wide, green, glossy, concolorous. Umbellasters 7-flowered; peduncle terete, 2–8 mm long. Buds sessile, ovoid or shortly cylindrical, 4–6 mm long, 3–5 mm diam., scar present; calyptra hemispherical or conical, shorter and narrower than or as wide as hypanthium.

Fruit globose or hemispherical, 4–6 mm long, 5–7 mm diam.; disc flat or raised; valves exserted. Locally frequent but scattered, in dry sclerophyll woodland on relatively infertile sandy soils; north from Armidale.


Illustration
M. Flockton

Herbarium
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Type
Specimen

Distribution and occurrence:
NSW subdivisions: NT, NWS
Other Australian states: Qld
AVH map***

Text by K. Hill
Taxon concept: Flora of NSW 2 (1991)


APNI* Provides a link to the Australian Plant Name Index (hosted by the Australian National Botanic Gardens) for comprehensive bibliographic data
***The AVH map option provides a detailed interactive Australia wide distribution map drawn from collections held by all major Australian herbaria participating in the Australian Virtual Herbarium project.
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