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''Eucalyptus staeri'', commonly known as Albany blackbutt, is a species of small tree or a mallee and is endemic to the south-west corner of Western Australia. It has rough bark on the trunk and branches, thick, lance-shaped adult leaves, flowers buds in groups of between seven and fifteen, creamy white flowers and shortened spherical fruit.
''Eucalyptus staeri'', commonly known as Albany blackbutt, is a species of small tree or a mallee and is endemic to the south-west corner of Western Australia. It has rough bark on the trunk and branches, thick, lance-shaped adult leaves, flowers buds in groups of between seven and fifteen, creamy white flowers and shortened spherical fruit.
Description
''Eucalyptus staeri'' is a tree or a mallee that typically grows to a height of and forms a lignotuber. It has rough, fibrous, fissured, greyish brown bark on the trunk and branches thicker than about . Young plants and coppice regrowth have stems that are square in cross-section and leaves that are a lighter shade of green on the lower side, egg-shaped to broadly lance-shaped, long and wide. Adult leaves are the same shade of green on both sides, lance-shaped, long and wide on a petiole long. The flower buds are arranged in leafaxil
A leaf ( : leaves) is any of the principal appendages of a vascular plant stem, usually borne laterally aboveground and specialized for photosynthesis. Leaves are collectively called foliage, as in "autumn foliage", while the leaves, st ...
s in groups of between seven and fifteen on a flattened, unbranched peduncle Peduncle may refer to:
*Peduncle (botany), a stalk supporting an inflorescence, which is the part of the shoot of seed plants where flowers are formed
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long, the individual buds on pedicels
In botany, a pedicel is a stem that attaches a single flower to the inflorescence. Such inflorescences are described as ''pedicellate''.
Description
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long. Mature buds are cylindrical to spindle-shaped, long and wide with a conical operculum. Flowering occurs from August or October to December or January or April and the flowers are creamy white. The fruit is a woody, shortened spherical capsule long and wide with the valves below rim level.
Taxonomy and naming
Albany blackbutt was first formally described in 1914 by Joseph Maiden in the ''Journal and Proceedings of the Royal Society of New South Wales
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'' and given the name ''Eucalyptus marginata'' var. ''staeri''. In 1924 Stephen Lackey Kessell and Charles Gardner raised the variety to species status as ''Eucalyptus staeri''. The specific epithet
In taxonomy, binomial nomenclature ("two-term naming system"), also called nomenclature ("two-name naming system") or binary nomenclature, is a formal system of naming species of living things by giving each a name composed of two parts, bot ...
(''staeri'') honours John Staer (1850-1933) who collected the type
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specimens.
Distribution and habitat
''Eucalyptus staeri'' is found mostly in the south west corner of the Great Southern region of Western Australia centred around the town of Albany with smaller populations extending north into the Wheatbelt. The preferred habitat is sandy soil in near-coastal scrubland.Conservation status
This eucalypt is classified as "not threatened" by the Western Australian GovernmentDepartment of Parks and Wildlife
The Department of Parks and Wildlife (DPaW) was the department of the Government of Western Australia responsible for managing lands described in the ''Conservation and Land Management Act 1984'' and implementing the state's conservation and e ...
.
See also
* List of ''Eucalyptus'' speciesReferences
{{Taxonbar, from=Q15356255 staeri Myrtales of Australia Endemic flora of Southwest Australia Eucalypts of Western Australia Plants described in 1914 Taxa named by Joseph Maiden