Eucalyptus conjuncta L.A.S.Johnson & K.D.Hill APNI*
Description: Tree to 15 m high; bark persistent, grey to red-brown, stringy.
Juvenile leaves disjunct, lanceolate, glossy green, hispid.
Adult leaves disjunct, lanceolate, 9–14 cm long, 1.2–2.2 cm wide, green, glossy, concolorous. Umbellasters ≥ 11-flowered; peduncle narrowly flattened or angular, 5–10 mm long; pedicels terete, 1–4 mm long. Buds ovoid to shortly fusiform, 5–7 mm long, 2–3 mm diam., scar absent; calyptra conical, as long and as wide as hypanthium.
Fruit hemispherical, 4–6 mm long, 6–8 mm diam.; disc flat or raised; valves rim-level or exserted.
Distribution and occurrence: Locally frequent but restricted, in dry sclerophyll woodland on poor shallow sandy soils; Murrurundi district only.
NSW subdivisions: CWS
Text by K. Hill Taxon concept: Flora of NSW 2 (1991)
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