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''Eucalyptus eremicola'', commonly known as Vokes Hill mallee, is a species of mallee that is native to South Australia and Western Australia. It has rough bark near the base, smooth bark above, linear to lance-shaped adult leaves, flower buds in groups of between nine and fifteen, white flowers and shortened spherical fruit.
Description
''Eucalyptus eremicola'' is a mallee, sometimes a tree, that typically grows to a height of and forms a lignotuber. It has rough bark on the lower half of the stems, light grey-brown bark that is flaky and shedding above. The adult leaves are linear to narrow lance-shaped, the same glossy green on both sides, long and wide on a petiole long. The flower buds are arranged in leafaxil
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s on an unbranched peduncle 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 buds on a pedicel long. Mature buds are oval, long and wide with a conical operculum. Flowering occurs between March and May and the flowers are white. The fruit is a woody, shortened sphere, long and wide with the valves extended beyond the rim with the remnants of the style attached.
Taxonomy and naming
''Eucalyptus eremicola'' was first formally described in 1975 by Clifford David Boomsma from a specimen collected in 1967 by J. Johnson atSerpentine Lake
The Serpentine (also known as the Serpentine River) is a recreational lake in Hyde Park, London, England, created in 1730 at the behest of Queen Caroline. Although it is common to refer to the entire body of water as the Serpentine, strict ...
in the Great Victoria Desert of South Australia. The description was published in the ''South Australian Naturalist''. The specific epithet
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(''eremicola'') is derived from the Ancient Greek ''eremos'' meaning "solitary" or "lonely" and the Latin suffix ''-cola'' meaning "dweller" or "inhabitant".
''Eucalyptus eremicola'' is part of the ''Eucalyptus'' subgenus ''Symphyomyrtus'' section ''Bisectae'' and subsection ''Destitutae''. It is part of the same subseries (''Oleaginae'') as '' E. kochii'', '' E. longissima'' and '' E. ultima''.
In 2005, Dean Nicolle
image:Dean-Nicolle-Deanei.JPG, 270px, Dean Nicolle and ''Eucalyptus deanei''
Dean Nicolle (born 1974), is an Australian botanist, arboriculture, arborist and ecologist. He is widely recognised as the leading authority on the genus ''Eucalyptus''.
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described two subspecies
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of ''E. eremicola'' and the names have been accepted by the Australian Plant Census:
* ''Eucalyptus eremicola'' Boomsma subsp. ''eremicola'';
* ''Eucalyptus eremicola'' subsp. ''peeneri'' ( Blakely) Nicolle.
Subspecies ''eremicola'' has narrower, more glossy leaves than subspecies ''peeneri'' but intergrades between the two are common. (Subspecies ''peeneri'' was formerly known as ''Eucalyptus oleosa'' var. ''peeneri'' Blakely).
Distribution and habitat
It is found in shrubland on sandplains and dunes where it grows in loamy-sandy soils. It is found in the Great Victoria Desert region of South Australia and Western Australia, the north west of theLittle Sandy Desert
The Little Sandy Desert (LSD) is a desert region in the state of Western Australia, lying to the east of the Pilbara and north of the Gascoyne regions. It is part of the Western Desert cultural region, and was declared an interim Australian ...
and as far west as Sandstone and Leonora.
Conservation status
Vokes Hill mallee is classified as "not threatened" by the Western Australian GovernmentDepartment of Parks and Wildlife
The Department of Parks and Wildlife (DPaW) was the department of the Government of Western Australia responsible for managing lands described in the ''Conservation and Land Management Act 1984'' and implementing the state's conservation and en ...
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See also
* List of ''Eucalyptus'' speciesReferences
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