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Eucalyptus piperita
- Eucalyptus piperita
Sm., Zool. Bot. New Holland 1: 42 (1793).
- TYPE: New South Wales, Port Jackson, J. White, 1793 (holo LINN, iso BM, G). No type was cited.
- Eucalyptus piperita
Sm., in White, Journ. Voyage New South Wales 226 (1790).
- TYPE: New South Wales, Port Jackson, J. White, 1793 (holo LINN iso BM, G, K)
- Eucalyptus bottii Blakely,
J. & Proc. Roy. Soc. New South Wales 61: 163 (1927).
- TYPE: New South Wales, Penang Ranges, Gosford, W.F. Blakely, H. Bott & D.W.C. Shiress, 15 Apr 1927 (lecto NSW; here designated). Several collectors and localities are cited, with no specified Type. Blakely fixed Type labels to several specimens from this area, but annoted this specimen with the number relating to his "Key to the Eucalypts". This specimen is E. piperita subsp. piperita, but others annotated by Blakely are hybrids between this taxon and E. pilularis. Blakely generally used the name E. bottii for the hybrids, although his type is as above.
- Eucalyptus piperita var. laxiflora Benth.,
Fl. Austral. 3: 207 (1867).
- TYPE: New South Wales, Manly Beach, W. Woolls (lecto K, isolecto MEL, here designated). Cited as "Manly Beach, "Peppermint-tree", Woolls; Twofold Bay, "Stringy-bark," F. Mueller; Camden, "Stringy-bark, "Backhouse; Macleay and Clarence rivers, Beckler." This was the only specimen of those cited noted by Chippendale (1974).
- Eucalyptus urceolaris Maiden & Blakely,
Crit. Revis. Eucalyptus 8: 10 (1929).
- TYPE: New South Wales, Wingello, J.L. Boorman NSW 132541, Sep 1899 (holo NSW). Cited as "Wingello (J.L. Boorman). The type."
- Metrosideros aromatica Salisb.,
Prodr. Stirp. 351 (1796).
- TYPE: New South Wales, Port Jackson, D. Burton (holo W ? ? or K - Salisb. Types here, fide T.L. 1). Cited as "Sponte nascentem juxta Port Jackson legit Dav. Burton."
- Eucalyptus piperata Stokes,
Bot. Mat. Med. 3: 69 (?) (?).
- sphalm.
Habit: Tree, Height to 30 m high.
Bark: Bark persistent on full trunk or persistent on trunk and larger
branches, shortly fibrous ("peppermint"), grey to grey-brown, white or grey
(above), shedding in long ribbons. Branchlets green. Pith glands absent; Bark
glands absent. Cotyledons reniform.
Leaves: Intermediate leaves disjunct early, ovate, falcate, entire,
dull grey green, petiolate, 16 cm long, 7.5 mm wide. Adult leaves disjunct,
lanceolate to broad lanceolate, falcate, acute or obtuse, oblique or basally
tapered, dull, green or grey-green, thick or thin, concolorous, 10–14 cm
long, 1–3 mm wide; Petioles narrowly flattened or channelled, Petioles
12–20 mm long. Lateral veins prominent, very acute, widely spaced.
Inflorescences: Conflorescence simple, axillary; Umbellasters
11-flowered to more than 11 flowered, regular. Peduncles terete or narrowly
flattened or angular (to 3mm wide), 5–18 mm long. Pedicels terete, 2–6
mm long.
Flowers: Buds ovoid or fusiform, not glaucous or pruinose, 4–8 mm
long, 2–3 mm diam. Calyx calyptrate; persisting to anthesis. Calyptra
conical (acute or beaked), 2 times as long as hypanthium or 3 times as long as
hypanthium, as wide as hypanthium; smooth. Hypanthium smooth. Flowers white, or
cream.
Fruits: Fruits globose or ovoid or urceolate, pedicellate, 3–4
locular, 6–9 mm long, 6–7 mm diam. Disc depressed. Valves enclosed.
Chaff cuboid, chaff same colour as seed.
 Occurrence: Locally frequent; wet or dry sclerophyll forest or
woodland on moderately fertile often alluvial sandy soil.
Distribution: N.S.W. regions North Coast, or Central Coast, or Central
Tablelands.
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