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Mallee Plain Nature Reserve
Mallee may refer to: * Mallee (habit), the habit of woody plants that grow with multiple stems from underground lignotubers Places * Mallee (biogeographic region), a biogeographic region in southern Western Australia *Mallee (Victoria), an informally defined region of north-western Victoria, Australia ** Division of Mallee, an electoral district that includes this region * Murray Mallee, a region in South Australia Flora *Mallee Woodlands and Shrublands, a vegetation group which occurs in semi-arid areas of southern Australia *One of several eucalyptus species, including: **Bell-fruited mallee, ''Eucalyptus preissiana'' **Blackbutt mallee, ''Eucalyptus zopherophloia'' **Blue mallee (other), multiple species **Blue Mountains mallee, ''Eucalyptus stricta'' **Blue-leaved mallee, '' Eucalyptus polybractea'' **Book-leaf mallee, '' Eucalyptus kruseana'' **Cliff mallee ash, ''Eucalyptus cunninghamii'' - a tiny and rare mallee from a high rainfall region **Darke Peak mallee, ' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mallee (habit)
Mallee are trees or shrubs, mainly certain species of eucalypts, which grow with multiple stems springing from an underground lignotuber, usually to a height of no more than . The term is widely used for trees with this growth habit across southern Australia, in the states of Western Australia, South Australia, New South Wales and Victoria, and has given rise to other uses of the term, including the ecosystems where such trees predominate, specific geographic areas within some of the states and as part of various species' names. Etymology The word is thought to originate from the word ''mali'', meaning water, in the Wemba Wemba language, an Aboriginal Australian language of southern New South Wales and Victoria. The word is also used in the closely related Woiwurrung language and other Aboriginal languages of Victoria, South Australia, and southern New South Wales. Overview The term ''mallee'' is used describe various species of trees or woody plants, mainly of the genus ''Euc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eucalyptus Forrestiana
''Eucalyptus forrestiana'', commonly known as fuchsia gum or fuchsia mallee, is a species of small tree or mallet and is endemic to an area near Esperance, Western Australia. It has smooth grey bark, narrow oblong to lance-shaped adult leaves, flower buds that are square in cross-section, red at maturity and arranged singly in leaf axils, yellow flowers and four-angled, winged fruit. Description ''Eucalyptus forrestiana'' is a small tree or mallet that typically grows to a height of and does not form a lignotuber. It has smooth grey over pale brown bark and a dense dark green canopy. Young plants and coppice regrowth have dull greyish green, petiolate leaves that are arranged alternately, egg-shaped to lance-shaped, long and wide. Adult leaves are also arranged alternately, lance-shaped, the same glossy green on both sides when mature, long and wide. The flowers buds are arranged singly in leaf axils on a flattened peduncle long, the pedicel long. Mature buds are red, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eucalyptus Argutifolia
''Eucalyptus argutifolia'', commonly known as Wabling Hill mallee or Yanchep mallee, is a mallee that is endemic to the south-west of Western Australia. It is a rare species with smooth bark, lance-shaped adult leaves, flower buds arranged in groups of seven or nine, white flowers and cylindrical to conical cup-shaped fruit. Description ''Eucalyptus argutifolia'' is a mallee that grows to a height of about with smooth grey or pale copper-coloured bark. Leaves on young plants and on coppice regrowth are egg-shaped to more or less round, long, wide, glossy green and have a petiole. Adult leaves are lance-shaped, long and wide on a petiole long. The adult leaves are the same glossy green on both sides. Leaves intermediate between juvenile and adult are also usually present. The flower buds are arranged in groups of seven or nine on a thick peduncle long, the individual buds on a pedicel up to long or absent. Mature buds are oval, long and wide with a rounded operculum ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eucalyptus Grossa
''Eucalyptus grossa'', commonly known as coarse-leaved mallee, is a species of mallee or rarely a straggly tree, that is endemic to Western Australia. It has rough, fibrous bark on the trunk and all but the thinnest branches, broadly lance-shaped to egg-shaped adult leaves, flower buds in groups of seven, yellowish green flowers and cup-shaped to cylindrical fruit. Description ''Eucalyptus grossa'' is a mallee, rarely a straggly tree or sometimes a shrub, that grows to a height of and forms a lignotuber. It has rough, fibrous, grey to brownish bark on the trunk and branches. Young plants and coppice regrowth have more or less egg-shaped leaves that are long and wide. Adult leaves are egg-shaped to broadly lance-shaped, glossy green, long and wide on a petiole long. The flower buds are arranged in leaf axils on a thick, downturned, unbranched peduncle long, the individual buds sessile or on thick pedicels up to long. Mature buds are long and wide with a conical opercu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eucalyptus Eremophila
''Eucalyptus eremophila'', commonly known as the sand mallet or tall sand mallee, is a species of Mallet (habit), mallet that is Endemism, endemic to semi-arid regions of Western Australia. It has smooth pale brown and greyish bark, narrow lance-shaped to elliptical adult leaves, flower buds arranged in groups of between seven and eleven with an elongated Operculum (botany), operculum, and cup-shaped to barrel-shaped fruit. Description ''Eucalyptus eremophila'' is a mallet, sometimes a shrub or a tree, that typically grows to a height of and a width of but does not form a lignotuber. It has smooth, polished pale brown to greyish bark that is shed in late summer. Young plants and coppice regrowth have glossy green, lance-shaped to oblong leaves long, wide and arranged alternately. Adult leaves are narrow lance-shaped to elliptical, long, long on a Petiole (botany), petiole long. The flower buds are arranged in leaf wikt:axil, axils in groups of seven, nine or eleven on a fla ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eucalyptus Orbifolia
''Eucalyptus orbifolia'', commonly known as round-leaved mallee, is a species of flowering plant in the family Myrtaceae and is endemic to inland Australia. It is a tree or mallee with rough bark, oval leaves, yellow flowers and conical fruit. Description ''Eucalyptus orbifolia'' is a mallee or tree that typically grows to a height of . The tree produces showy cream-yellow flowers predominantly between mid-winter and late spring from July to November. It has rough minni ritchi bark on the trunk. Like most mallees it has multiple stems. The bark is reddish brown in colour and which peels and curls outwards, exposing paler white-grey bark below. The grey-green, oval-shaped adult leaves are in length and wide. Each inflorescence is in diameter. Taxonomy ''Eucalyptus orbifolia'' was first formally described in 1859 by Ferdinand von Mueller in '' Fragmenta Phytographiae Australiae'' from specimens collected by Charles Harper. The name is sometimes misapplied to '' Eucalyptus ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eucalyptus Lansdowneana
''Eucalyptus lansdowneana'', commonly known as the crimson mallee or the red-flowered mallee box, is a species of slender stemmed, straggly mallee that is endemic to a restricted area of South Australia. It has rough, fibrous or flaky bark at the base, smooth, grey over creamy-white bark, lance-shaped adult leaves, flower buds in groups of seven, crimson flowers and barrel-shaped fruit. Description ''Eucalyptus lansdowneana'' is a mallee that typically grows to a height of and forms a lignotuber. It has about of rough, fibrous or flaky bark at the base, smooth, grey over creamy-white bark that is shed in short strips above. Young plants and coppice regrowth have broadly lance-shaped to egg-shaped leaves that are long and wide. Adult leaves are glossy green, lance-shaped, long and wide on a petiole long. The flower buds are arranged on both branched peduncles long on the ends of branchlets each branch with a group of seven buds and on unbranched peduncles in leaf axils, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eucalyptus Curtisii
'' Eucalyptus curtisii'', commonly known as Plunkett mallee, is a species of mallee or small tree that is endemic to south-east Queensland in Australia. It has smooth grey to silvery bark, lance-shaped, narrow elliptic or curved adult leaves, flower buds in groups of seven, white flowers and wrinkled, cup-shaped fruit. Description ''Eucalyptus curtisii'' is a slender mallee or small tree that typically grows to a height of and forms a lignotuber. It has smooth grey to silvery bark that is shed in short curly flakes. Young plants and coppice regrowth have linear to narrow lance-shaped leaves that are long and wide and a slightly darker shade of green on the upper surface. Adult leaves are lance-shaped, elliptic or curved, glossy green but much paler on the lower surface. They are long and wide on a petiole long. The flower buds are arranged in groups of seven on a branching inflorescence near the ends of the stems, each branch with groups of seven buds. The groups are on a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eucalyptus Pyriformis
''Eucalyptus pyriformis'', commonly known as pear-fruited mallee or Dowerin rose, is a species of low, straggly mallee that is endemic to Western Australia. It has smooth greyish brown bark sometimes with ribbony bark near the base, egg-shaped to lance-shaped adult leaves, flower buds in groups of three, red, pinkish or creamy white flowers and down-turned, conical fruit with prominent ribs. Description ''Eucalyptus pyriformis'' is a straggly mallee that typically grows to a height of and to a width of and forms a lignotuber. In nature, it tends to be multi-stemmed but in cultivation it is more likely to be single stemmed. The bark is smooth, grey or salmon-pink coloured, often shedding in ribbons at the base. Young plants and coppice regrowth have leaves that are arranged alternately, dull bluish green, egg-shaped to broadly lance-shaped, long and wide and petiolate. Adult leaves are the same shade of dull bluish or greyish green on both sides, egg-shaped to lance-shaped, l ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eucalyptus Angustissima
''Eucalyptus angustissima'', or narrow-leaved mallee, is a small tree that is native to the south of Western Australia. Distribution is scattered in southern coastal and subcoastal areas. The tree is endemic to Western Australia. Description It is a mallee eucalyptus that grows from about 1 to 4 metres in height. The bark is smooth or matt, mottled grey and very white/grey or light grey-brown. Its juvenile leaves are 4.5 to 8 cm long and 0.3 to 0.4 cm wide The adult leaves are 7 to 11.5 cm long and very narrow (0.15 to 0.3 cm wide). The buds occur in clusters of up to 7 and are followed by creamy-white flowers that appear between August and January and hemispherical fruits 0.5 to 0.8 cm wide. The crown is often very dense and not immediately recognisable as a eucalypt. There are two recognised subspecies: * ''Eucalyptus angustissima'' subsp.''angustissima'' * ''Eucalyptus angustissima'' subsp. ''quaerenda'' Taxonomy First described by the botanist Fe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eucalyptus Recurva
''Eucalyptus recurva'', commonly known as Mongarlowe mallee, is a species of dense mallee shrub that is endemic to a small area of New South Wales. It has smooth bark, a crown consisting of unusually small, juvenile leaves, flower buds in groups of three, white flowers and hemispherical fruit. It is only known from six extremely old multi-stemmed individual plants and is classed as "critically endangered". Description ''Eucalyptus recurva'' is a mallee that typically grows to a height of and forms a lignotuber. It has smooth grey, orange, green or yellow bark that is shed in long ribbons. Young plants and coppice regrowth have sessile, elliptical to egg-shaped leaves that are arranged in opposite pairs, each leaf long and wide. The crown of mature trees is composed of juvenile leaves that are paler on the lower surface, up to long and wide with the tip turned down. The flower buds are arranged in leaf axils in groups of three on an unbranched peduncle long, the individual ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Acacia Montana
''Acacia montana'', commonly known as mallee wattle, is a shrub species endemic to south-eastern Australia. The species was first formally described in 1842 by English botanist George Bentham from plant material collected from the "highlands near the Liverpool Plains" in New South Wales. The Latin specific epithet ''montana'' refers to mountains or coming from mountains.Archibald William Smith References {{Taxonbar, from=Q4670968 montana Montana () is a state in the Mountain West division of the Western United States. It is bordered by Idaho to the west, North Dakota and South Dakota to the east, Wyoming to the south, and the Canadian provinces of Alberta, British Columbi ... Flora of New South Wales Flora of Queensland Flora of South Australia Flora of Victoria (state) Fabales of Australia Plants described in 1842 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
