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Eucalyptus pachycalyx Maiden & Blakely
Family Myrtaceae
Eucalyptus pachycalyx Maiden & Blakely APNI*

Description: Tree to 10 m high, often multistemmed; bark smooth to base, patchy light and dark grey, yellow and orange, shedding in scales.

Juvenile leaves disjunct, ovate, grey-green, dull. Adult leaves usually disjunct, broad-lanceolate, 5–13 cm long, 1.8–3.3 cm wide, grey-green, dull, concolorous.

Umbellasters 7-flowered, paired; peduncle terete, 5–15 mm long; pedicels terete, 1–3 mm long. Buds ovoid, 7–9 mm long, 5–6 mm diam., scar present; calyptra hemispherical, half to two-thirds as long as and as wi de as hypanthium.

Fruit hemispherical, 3- or 4-locular, 6–7 mm long, 7–8 mm diam.; disc level, 1.5–2 mm wide, with regular radial cracking; valves exserted.


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Distribution and occurrence: Locally dominant in small patches on skeletal sandy soils along the upper escarpment of a steep sandstone range; restricted to the Banyabba N.R.
NSW subdivisions: NC
Other Australian states: Qld
AVH map***

Text by K.D. Hill
Taxon concept:

One subspecies in NSW : Eucalyptus pachycalyx subsp. banyabba

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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