''Corymbia hendersonii'', commonly known as Henderson's bloodwood, is a species of tree that is

endemic Endemism is the state of a species being found in a single defined geographic location, such as an island, state, nation, country or other defined zone; organisms that are indigenous to a place are not endemic to it if they are also found elsew ...

to Queensland. It has rough, tessellated bark on the trunk and branches, lance-shaped adult leaves, flower buds in groups of seven, creamy white flowers and urn-shaped to barrel-shaped fruit.

Description

''Corymbia hendersonii'' is a tree that typically grows to a height of and forms a lignotuber. It has rough, tessellated bark on the trunk and branches. Young plants and coppice regrowth have linear to narrow lance-shaped leaves that are long, wide and paler on the lower surface. Adult leaves are arranged alternately, glossy dark green on the upper surface, much paler below, lance-shaped, long and wide, tapering to a petiole long. The flower buds are arranged on the ends of branchlets on a branched peduncle long, each branch of the peduncle with seven 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 Pedicel refers to a structure connecting a single flower to its inflorescence. In the absenc ...

long. Mature buds are oval, long and wide with a rounded or conical operculum. Flowering occurs from January to March and the flowers are creamy white. The fruit is a woody urn-shaped to barrel-shaped capsule long and wide with the valves enclosed in the fruit.

Taxonomy and naming

''Corymbia hendersonii'' was first formally described in 1995 by Ken Hill and Lawrie Johnson from specimens collected by R.J. Henderson and others on the Blackdown Tableland in 1971. 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 ...

(''hendersonii'') honours the collector of the type specimens.

Distribution and habitat

This eucalypt grows with others, usually on rocky slopes and ridges on the Blackdown Tableland, the Carnarvon Range west of

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and south the Cracow.

Conservation status

Henderson's bloodwood is listed as of "least concern" under the Queensland Government ''

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''.

References

{{Taxonbar, from=Q5173733 hendersonii Myrtales of Australia Flora of Queensland Plants described in 1995