Eucalyptus hypostomatica L.A.S.Johnson & K.D.Hill APNI* 
Description: Tree to 40 m high; bark persistent throughout, grey, fibrous-flaky (`box').
Juvenile leaves disjunct, broad-lanceolate to ovate, dull green.
Adult leaves disjunct, lanceolate or broad-lanceolate, 6–11 cm long, 1.5–3 cm wide, green, dull, discolorous. Conflorescence compound; umbellasters 7-flowered; peduncle terete, 10 mm long; pedicels terete, 0–3 mm long. Buds ovoid to clavate, 3–5 mm long, 2–3 mm diam., scar present; calyptra hemispherical or conical, shorter than and as wide as hypanthium. Outer stamens infertile; anthers cuboid.
Fruit ovoid, 3–5 mm long, 2–4 mm diam.; disc depressed; valves enclosed.
Distribution and occurrence: Uncommon and localized, in grassy or sclerophyll forest on sloping soil of medium fertility; from Pokolbin and near Blackwater Creek to Kangaroo Valley.
NSW subdivisions: NC, CC, CT
Text by K. Hill
Taxon concept: Flora of NSW 2 (1991)
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