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''Eucalyptus behriana'', commonly known as bull mallee and broad-leaved box, is a species of mallee or small 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 south-eastern Australia. It has rough, fibrous bark on the lower part of the trunk and smooth bark above, broadly lance-shaped adult leaves, flower buds in groups of seven, white flowers and cup-shaped or barrel-shaped fruit.
Description
''Eucalyptus behriana'' is a tree or a mallee that typically grows to a height of and forms a lignotuber. It has rough, fibrous, dark brown to black bark on the base of the trunk and smooth greyish, greenish or coppery bark on the upper trunk and branches. Leaves on young plants and on coppice regrowth are arranged alternately, egg-shaped, long, wide and have a petiole. The adult leaves are arranged alternately, broadly lance-shaped to egg-shaped, long, wide on a petiole long, and the same glossy green on both sides. The flower buds are arranged in groups of seven, mostly on the ends of the branches on apeduncle 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, the individual flowers usually sessile
Sessility, or sessile, may refer to:
* Sessility (motility), organisms which are not able to move about
* Sessility (botany), flowers or leaves that grow directly from the stem or peduncle of a plant
* Sessility (medicine), tumors and polyps that ...
. Mature buds are oblong to oval, green to brownish, long and wide with a conical to rounded operculum. Flowering mainly occurs from September to February and the flowers are white. The fruit that follows is a woody, cup-shaped or barrel-shaped capsule long and in diameter.
Taxonomy and naming
''Eucalyptus behriana'' was first formally described by Victorian Government BotanistFerdinand von Mueller
Baron Sir Ferdinand Jacob Heinrich von Mueller, (german: Müller; 30 June 1825 – 10 October 1896) was a German-Australian physician, geographer, and most notably, a botanist. He was appointed government botanist for the then colony of Vict ...
in 1855 and the description was published in '' Transactions and Proceedings of the Victorian Institute for the Advancement of Science''. 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 ...
(''behriana'') honours Hans Hermann Behr.
Distribution
''Eucalyptus behriana'' has adisjunct distribution
In biology, a taxon with a disjunct distribution is one that has two or more groups that are related but considerably separated from each other geographically. The causes are varied and might demonstrate either the expansion or contraction of a s ...
in south-eastern Australia. In New South Wales
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it occurs in mallee shrubland near West Wyalong. In Victoria it occurs in the Mallee and Wimmera in the north-west, with the exception of a small outlying population in the south near Bacchus Marsh
Bacchus Marsh (Wathawurrung: ''Pullerbopulloke'') is an urban centre and suburban locality in Victoria, Australia located approximately north west of the state capital Melbourne and west of Melton, Victoria, Melton at a near equidistance to th ...
including Long Forest Nature Conservation Reserve
Long Forest Nature Conservation Reserve is a protected area in the Australian state of Victoria situated to the west of the state capital of Melbourne, between Melton and Bacchus Marsh. It is managed by Parks Victoria.
Flora
The nature conse ...
. In South Australia, it has a scattered distribution across the south-east.
See also
* List of ''Eucalyptus'' speciesReferences
{{Taxonbar, from=Q5405528 Flora of New South Wales Flora of South Australia Flora of Victoria (Australia) Trees of Australia behriana Myrtales of Australia Mallees (habit) Plants described in 1855 Taxa named by Ferdinand von Mueller