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Eucalyptus robertsonii Blakely
Family Myrtaceae
Eucalyptus robertsonii Blakely APNI*

Description: Tree to 30 m high; bark persistent on trunk and larger branches or throughout, grey to grey-brown, shortly fibrous ('peppermint'), smooth above, grey, shedding in long ribbons.

Juvenile leaves opposite, lanceolate, dull grey-green to glaucous. Adult leaves disjunct, narrow-lanceolate or lanceolate, 7–13 cm long, 0.8–1.5 cm wide, grey-green, dull, concolorous.

Umbellasters >11-flowered; peduncle terete, 5–8 mm long; pedicels terete, 1–3 mm long. Buds clavate, glaucous, 3–5 mm long, 2–3 mm diam., scar absent; calyptra hemispherical or conical, shorter than and as wide as hypanthium.

Fruit globose or pyriform, 4–6 mm long, 4–6 mm diam.; disc depressed or flat; valves enclosed or rim-level. Locally frequent, in grassy or dry sclerophyll woodland or forest on lighter soils, often on granite; ranges south from Orange district.


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Distribution and occurrence:
NSW subdivisions: CT, ST, SWS
Other Australian states: Vic.
AVH map***

Eucalyptus robertsonii is considered to be a synonym of E. radiata subsp. robertsonii by The Australian Plant Census (CHAH 2006).

Text by K. Hill
Taxon concept:

 Key to the subspecies 
1Calyptra conicalsubsp. robertsonii
Calyptra hemisphericalsubsp. hemisphaerica

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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