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''Corymbia abbreviata'', also known as scraggy bloodwood, is a species of straggly tree that is native to Western Australia and the Northern Territory. It has rough bark, a crown of stiff leaves arranged in opposite pairs, flower buds usually in crowded groups on the ends of branchlets and urn-shaped fruit.
''Corymbia abbreviata'', also known as scraggy bloodwood, is a species of straggly tree that is native to Western Australia and the Northern Territory. It has rough bark, a crown of stiff leaves arranged in opposite pairs, flower buds usually in crowded groups on the ends of branchlets and urn-shaped fruit.
Description
''Corymbia abbreviata'' is a straggly tree or shrub that typically grows to a height of and forms a lignotuber. It has tessellated, flaky, grey-brown over red-brown bark. The branchlets are silvery to green, smooth, glabrous and lack oil glands in the pith. Young plants and coppice regrowth have sessile, stem-clasping, heart-shaped leaves, long, wide and arranged in opposite pairs. The crown has adult leaves that are similar to the juvenile leaves, heart-shaped to broadly lance-shaped, long, wide with the base stem-clasping or lobed. The flower buds are mostly arranged on the ends of branchlets on a branchedpeduncle 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
*Peduncle (anatomy), a stem, through which a mass of tissue is attached to a body
**Peduncle (art ...
long, each branch usually with seven buds, the buds sessile or on pedicels up to long. Mature buds are oval to pear-shaped, long and wide with a rounded operculum. Flowering occurs between July and January and the flowers are creamy white. The fruit is a smooth, woody, urn-shaped capsule long and wide with a conspicuous neck and the valves enclosed.
Taxonomy and naming
Scraggy bloodwood was first formally described in 1934 by William Blakely and Maxwell Jacobs and given the name ''Eucalyptus abbreviata'', in Blakely's book ''A Key to the Eucalypts''. In 1995, Ken Hill and Lawrie Johnson changed the name to ''Corymbia abbreviata''. Thespecific 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 ...
(''abbreviata'') is from the Latin word ''abbreviatus'' meaning "shortened" referring to the flower heads.
Distribution and habitat
''Corymbia abbreviata'' has a scattered distribution extending from Wyndham and Karunji in theKimberley
Kimberly or Kimberley may refer to:
Places and historical events
Australia
* Kimberley (Western Australia)
** Roman Catholic Diocese of Kimberley
* Kimberley Warm Springs, Tasmania
* Kimberley, Tasmania a small town
* County of Kimberley, a ...
region of Western Australia and east as far as Dorisvale and Willeroo in the Northern Territory. The distribution of ''C. abbreviata'' coincides with '' C. ferruginea''. It grows in skeletal soils, on stony slopes, ridges and outcrops of sandstone, granite or quartzite.
See also
*List of Corymbia species
The following is a list of species in the genus ''Corymbia'' accepted by the Australian Plant Census as at April 2023.
Species
*''Corymbia abbreviata'' ( Blakely & Jacobs) K.D.Hill & L.A.S.Johnson – scraggy bloodwood (W.A., N.T.)
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References
{{Taxonbar, from=Q15395597abbreviata
''Abbreviata'' is a genus of nematodes belonging to the family Physalopteridae.
The genus has almost cosmopolitan distribution
In biogeography, cosmopolitan distribution is the term for the range of a taxon that extends across all or most o ...
Myrtales of Australia
Flora of Western Australia
Flora of the Northern Territory
Plants described in 1934