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Eucalyptus rummeryi Maiden
Family Myrtaceae
Common name: Steel Box

Eucalyptus rummeryi Maiden APNI*

Description: Tree to 40 m high; bark persistent on trunk and larger branches, grey with whitish patches, fibrous-flaky.

Juvenile leaves disjunct, elliptic to ovate or broad-lanceolate, dull green.

Adult leaves disjunct, lanceolate, 8–16 cm long, 1–2.3 cm wide, green, dull, discolorous. Conflorescence compound; umbellasters 7-flowered; peduncle narrowly flattened or angular, 5–10 mm long; pedicels terete, 2–3 mm long. Buds ovoid to shortly fusiform, 4–7 mm long, 2–3 mm diam., scar present; calyptra conical, as long and as wide as hypanthium. All stamens fertile.

Fruit hemispherical, pyriform or turbinate, 3–5 mm long, 3–4 mm diam.; disc depressed; valves rim-level or exserted.


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Photo J. & P. Edwards

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Distribution and occurrence: Uncommon but locally frequent, in wet or grassy forest on fertile soils; Dorrigo to Casino.
NSW subdivisions: NC
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Text by K. Hill
Taxon concept: Flora of NSW 2 (1991)


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