Common name: Snow Gum
Eucalyptus debeuzevillei Maiden APNI* Synonyms: Eucalyptus pauciflora subsp. debeuzevillei (Maiden) L.A.S.Johnson & Blaxell APNI*
Description: Tree or mallee to 10 m high, sometimes to 15 m; bark smooth, white and grey, shedding in ribbons.
Juvenile leaves disjunct, broad-lanceolate, dull grey-green to glaucous.
Adult leaves disjunct, lanceolate, 8–15 cm long, 1.3–4 cm wide, grey-green, dull, concolorous, veins subparallel. Umbellasters ≥ 11-flowered; peduncle terete, 6–13 mm long. Buds sessile, ovoid, glaucous, usually 4-angled, 9–12 mm long, 4–7 mm diam., scar absent; calyptra conical, shorter and narrower than or as wide as hypanthium.
Fruit globose, hemispherical or conical, angular, 9–16 mm long, 7–14 mm diam.; disc flat or raised; valves enclosed or rim-level.
Distribution and occurrence: Locally abundant but restricted, in grassy subalpine woodland in Kosciusko N.P.
NSW subdivisions: ST
Text by K. Hill
Taxon concept: Flora of NSW 2 (1991)
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