''Eucalyptus chapmaniana'', commonly known as the Bogong gum, is a species of small to medium-sized tree

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montane Montane ecosystems are found on the slopes of mountains. The alpine climate in these regions strongly affects the ecosystem because temperatures fall as elevation increases, causing the ecosystem to stratify. This stratification is a crucial f ...

and

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. It has rough, fibrous and fissured bark on most of the trunk and smooth light brown to grey bark often shed in long ribbons on the branches. The adult leaves are lance-shaped to curved, the flower buds in groups of three and the fruit a conical or bell-shaped capsule. Eucalyptus chapmaniana buds

Description

''Eucalyptus chapmaniana'' is a tree that typically grows to a height of and forms a

lignotuber A lignotuber is a woody swelling of the root crown possessed by some plants as a protection against destruction of the plant stem, such as by fire. Other woody plants may develop basal burls as a similar survival strategy, often as a response t ...

. The bark on most of the trunk is rough, fibrous and finely and grey or brown-grey and on the branches is smooth, light brown to pale grey, with long ribbons of shed bark. Young plants and copice regrowth have

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egg-shaped to almost round leaves long and wide arranged in opposite pairs. Adult leaves are arranged alternately, lance-shaped to curved, long and wide on a petiole long. The flower buds are arranged in groups of three in leaf

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s on an unbranched peduncle long, the individual buds on a

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long. Mature buds are club-shaped to diamond-shaped, long and wide with a conical to beaked operculum. Flowering occurs from January to March and the flowers are white. The fruit is a woody, conical or bell-shaped capsule long and wide.

Taxonomy

''Eucalyptus chapmaniana'' was first formally described in 1947 by Alexander Kenneth Cameron from a specimen near Bogong and the description was published in ''

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''. The

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(''chapmanii'') honours

Wilfrid Chapman Brigadier Wilfrid Chapman FIE (16 May 1891 – 6 May 1955)Ronald McNicoll Australian Dictionary of Biography The ''Australian Dictionary of Biography'' (ADB or AuDB) is a national co-operative enterprise founded and maintained by the Aus ...

(1891–1955), after he had drawn attention to the existence of this species.Ronald McNicoll
'Chapman, Wilfrid Dinsey (1891 - 1955)'
Australian Dictionary of Biography, Volume 13, Melbourne University Press, 1993, pp 404-405.

Distribution and habitat

Bogong gum grows in wet forest and grassy or shrubby woodland, often on steep slopes, in cold mountains areas of

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and far southeastern

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. In Victoria it occurs along the highest parts of the

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between Jamieson and Benambra and is also found on

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and Pine Mountain. In New South Wales it is only found south of

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Gallery

Image:Eucalyptus Chapmaniana 5201.JPG, ''Eucalyptus chapmaniana'' in

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Image:Eucalyptus chapmaniana Mt Buffalo.jpg, ''Eucalyptus chapmaniana'' on

Image:Eucalyptus chapmaniana Bogong.jpg, ''Eucalyptus chapmaniana'' near Bogong

References

{{Taxonbar, from=Q675804 chapmaniana Myrtales of Australia Flora of New South Wales Flora of Victoria (Australia) Trees of Australia Trees of mild maritime climate Plants described in 1947