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Eucalyptus canaliculata Maiden
Family Myrtaceae
Common name: grey gum

Eucalyptus canaliculata Maiden APNI*

Synonyms: Eucalyptus punctata var. grandiflora Maiden APNI*

Description: Tree to 30 m high; bark smooth, patchy, matte, white, grey or pink, shedding in large plates or flakes.

Juvenile leaves disjunct, narrow-lanceolate, glossy green.

Adult leaves disjunct, lanceolate, 8–15 cm long, 1.5–3 cm wide, dark green, glossy, discolorous, penniveined. Umbellasters 7-flowered; peduncle broadly flattened, 10–18 mm long; pedicels terete, 4–7 mm long. Buds ovoid, 7–12 mm long, 5–6 mm diam., scar present; calyptra conical, as long and as wide as or narrower than hypanthium.

Fruit hemispherical or turbinate, ribbed, 6–12 mm long, 6–14 mm diam.; disc raised; valves exserted.


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M. Flockton

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Distribution and occurrence: Locally frequent, in wet or dry sclerophyll forest on soils of medium fertility; eastern and southern foothills of the Barrington Tops, Gloucester to the Hunter R.
NSW subdivisions: NC
AVH map***

Local intergradation occurs with E.biturbinata in mosaic with the parent species around Gloucester. Populations in the lower Hunter Valley in the Maitland-Singleton-Cessnock area are intermediate between E. punctataE. canaliculata..

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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