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''Eucalyptus buprestium'', also known as the apple mallee or ball-fruited mallee, is a small mallee 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 an area along the south coast of Western Australia
Western Australia (commonly abbreviated as WA) is a state of Australia occupying the western percent of the land area of Australia excluding external territories. It is bounded by the Indian Ocean to the north and west, the Southern Ocean to th ...
. It has smooth bark, narrow lance-shaped adult leaves, flower buds arranged in groups of between nine and fifteen, white flowers and almost spherical fruit with a small opening.
Description
''Eucalyptus buprestium'' is a mallee that typically grows to a height of and forms a lignotuber. It has smooth greenish brown and cream-coloured bark that ages to grey and is shed in ribbons. Young plants have dull green, elliptic,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
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leaves arranged in opposite pairs, long and wide. Adult leaves are arranged alternately, greyish green, narrow lance-shaped, long and wide on a petiole long. The flower buds are arranged in groups of between nine and fifteen on a peduncle long, the individual flowers on a pedicel
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Human anatomy
*Pedicle of vertebral arch, the segment between the transverse process and the vertebral body, and is often used as a radiographic marker and entry point in vertebroplasty and kyphoplasty procedures
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long. The mature buds are oval to pear-shaped, long and wide with a rounded operculum sometimes with a small point on the end. Flowering occurs from September to December, sometimes as late as April and the flowers are white. November and April producing white flowers. The fruit is a woody, almost spherical capsule long and wide, with a small opening enclosing the valves.
Taxonomy
''Eucalyptus buprestium'' was first formally described by the 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 1862 and the description was published in his book '' Fragmenta phytographiae Australiae''. 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 ...
(''buprestium'') alludes to the beetle
Beetles are insects that form the order Coleoptera (), in the superorder Endopterygota. Their front pair of wings are hardened into wing-cases, elytra, distinguishing them from most other insects. The Coleoptera, with about 400,000 describ ...
genus ''Bupestris
''Buprestis'' is a genus of beetles in the tribe Buprestini, the jewel beetles. As of 2011 there were 78 described species distributed across most of the world's biogeographic realms except parts of Africa and Antarctica.
Species include:
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'', "referring to the attraction the mallees had for some beetles".
The species is part of the ''Eucalyptus'' subgenus series ''Diversiformae'', a group of mallees that all have adult leaves held erect, buds with a single unscarred operculum and pyramidal seeds. The other species in this series include '' E. erectifolia'', '' E. platydisca'', '' E.diversifolia'', '' E. todtiana'', '' E. lateritica'', '' E. dolorosa'' and '' E. pachyloma''.
Distribution
Apple mallee is found on coastal and near-coastal sandplains and ridge tops along the south coast in the Great Southern region of Western Australia between Albany in the west, Mount Barker in the north and Jerramungup in the east where it grows in gravelly sandy-clay soils.See also
* List of ''Eucalyptus'' speciesReferences
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