''Eucalyptus erosa'' is a species of tree that is
endemic to a small area of Queensland. It has rough, fibrous to stringy grey bark, lance-shaped to curved adult leaves, flower buds arranged in groups of between nine and thirteen, white flowers and cup-shaped to hemispherical fruit.
Description
''Eucalyptus erosa'' is a tree that typically grows to a height of and forms a
lignotuber. It has rough, fibrous to stringy, grey bark on the trunk and branches. Young plants and
coppice regrowth have narrow lance-shaped, to egg-shaped leaves long, wide and are a much darker green on one side. Adult leaves are arranged alternately, the same shade of green on both sides, lance-shaped to curved, long and wide on a
petiole long. The flower buds are arranged in groups of nine, eleven or thirteen in leaf
axil
A leaf ( : leaves) is any of the principal appendages of a vascular plant stem, usually borne laterally aboveground and specialized for photosynthesis. Leaves are collectively called foliage, as in "autumn foliage", while the leaves, st ...
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
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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. Mature buds are oval, long and wide with a conical to rounded
operculum with a small point on the top. Flowering has been recorded in May and the flowers are white. The fruit is a woody, cup-shaped to hemispherical
capsule long and wide with the valves level with the rim.
Taxonomy and naming
''Eucalyptus erosa'' was first described in 2005 by
Anthony Bean
Anthony Russell Bean (born 1957) is an Australian botanist who works at the Queensland Herbarium and Brisbane Botanic Gardens, Mount Coot-tha. Since 1982, he has led the Eucalyptus Study Group of the Society for Growing Australian Plants.
Care ...
from a specimen he collected in the
Maranoa district in 1981 and the description was published in the journal ''Austrobaileya''.
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 ...
(''erosa'') is a
Latin word meaning "eaten away", "gnawed" or "nibbled",
referring to the edges of the adult leaves.
Distribution and habitat
This eucalypt grows in sandy soils derived from sandstone and is only known from the Mt Moffatt section of the
Carnarvon National Park and an adjacent grazing property.
References
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The pitted stonefish (''Erosa erosa''), also known as the Pacific monkey-fish, is a species of venomous ray-finned fish, a stonefish be longing to the subfamily Synanceiinae of the family Scorpaenidae, the scorpionfishes and their relatives. It ...
Myrtales of Australia
Trees of Australia
Flora of Queensland
Plants described in 2005