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Eucalyptus radiata Sieber ex DC.
Family Myrtaceae
Common name: Narrow-leaved Peppermint

Eucalyptus radiata Sieber ex DC. APNI*

Description: Tree to 30 m high, or rarely 50 m; 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, narrow-lanceolate to broad-lanceolate, dull green. Adult leaves disjunct, narrow-lanceolate or lanceolate, 7–15 cm long, 0.7–1.5 cm wide, green, glossy or semi-glossy, concolorous.

Umbellasters >11-flowered; peduncle terete, 2–8 mm long; pedicels terete, 1–5 mm long. Buds clavate, 3–6 mm long, 2–4 mm diam., scar absent; calyptra hemispherical or conical (shortly beaked), shorter and narrower than hypanthium.

Fruit globose, hemispherical or pyriform, 4–6 mm long, 4–6 mm diam.; disc flat; valves enclosed or rim-level.


Illustration
M. Flockton

Herbarium
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Type
Specimen

Distribution and occurrence: Forest or woodland on a range of substrates, usually colder, wetter areas; south from Qld border.
NSW subdivisions: SC, NT, CT, ST
Other Australian states: Qld Vic.
AVH map***

Text by K. Hill
Taxon concept:

 Key to the subspecies 
1Juvenile leaves linear to lanceolatesubsp. radiata
Juvenile leaves broad-lanceolatesubsp. sejuncta

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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