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''Eucalyptus kabiana'', commonly known as Mt Beerwah mallee, is a species of mallee, rarely a 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 else ...
to Queensland. It has smooth white to grey bark, sometimes with a short stocking of rough, fibrous bark at the base. The adult leaves are lance-shaped or curved, the flower buds are arranged in groups of between seven and eleven, the flowers are white and the fruit is hemispherical with protruding valves.


Description

''Eucalyptus kabiana'' is usually a mallee that typically grows to a height of , rarely a tree to , 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 ...
. Young plants and
coppice Coppicing is a traditional method of woodland management which exploits the capacity of many species of trees to put out new shoots from their stump or roots if cut down. In a coppiced wood, which is called a copse, young tree stems are repeate ...
regrowth have dull greyish leaves that are long and wide. Adult leaves are lance-shaped or curved, the same shade of green on both sides, long and wide on a petiole long. The flower buds are arranged in leaf axils in groups of seven, nine or eleven on an unbranched peduncle long, the individual buds on
pedicels In botany, a pedicel is a stem that attaches a single flower to the inflorescence. Such inflorescences are described as ''pedicellate''. Description Pedicel refers to a structure connecting a single flower to its inflorescence. In the absenc ...
long. Mature buds are an elongated oval shape, long and wide with a conical to horn-shaped operculum. Flowering occurs in October and the flowers are white. The fruit is a woody, hemispherical capsule, about long and wide with the valves protruding well above the rim of the fruit.


Taxonomy and naming

''Eucalyptus kabiana'' was first described in 1991 by
Lawrie Johnson Lawrence Alexander Sidney Johnson Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science, FAA, (26 June 1925 – 1 August 1997) known as Lawrie Johnson, was an Australian Taxonomy (biology), taxonomic botany, botanist. He worked at the Royal Botanic Garden ...
and Ken Hill from a specimen collected on the lower slopes of Mount Beerwah, and the description was published in the journal '' Telopea''. The specific epithet commemorates the
Kabi Kabi The Gubbi Gubbi people also known as Kabi Kabi are an Aboriginal Australian people native to south-eastern Queensland. They are now classified as one of several Murri language groups in Queensland. Naming As is often the case, ethnonyms dis ...
people, who inhabited the
Glass House Mountains The Glass House Mountains are a cluster of thirteen hills that rise abruptly from the coastal plain on the Sunshine Coast, Queensland, Australia. The highest hill is Mount Beerwah at 556 metres above sea level, but the most identifiable of a ...
prior to European settlement.


Distribution and habitat

Mt Beerwah mallee grows in heath on steep
trachyte Trachyte () is an extrusive igneous rock composed mostly of alkali feldspar. It is usually light-colored and aphanitic (fine-grained), with minor amounts of mafic minerals, and is formed by the rapid cooling of lava enriched with silica and al ...
slopes and is only known from Mt Beerwah and Mt Coolum.


Conservation status

This eucalypt is classed as "vulnerable" under the Australian Government
Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999 The ''Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999'' (Cth) is an Act of the Parliament of Australia that provides a framework for protection of the Australian environment, including its biodiversity and its natural and cult ...
and under the Queensland Government
Nature Conservation Act 1992 The ''Nature Conservation Act 1992'' is an act of the Parliament of Queensland, Australia, that, together with subordinate legislation, provides for the legislative protection of Queensland's threatened biota. As originally published, it pro ...
. The main threats to the species are its restricted distribution and increased fire frequency. It is listed was an endangered species with the
International Union for the Conservation of Nature The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN; officially International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources) is an international organization working in the field of nature conservation and sustainable use of natura ...
in 2019. It has a severely fragmented and declining population of about 2,000 individual plants.


See also

* List of ''Eucalyptus'' species


References

{{Taxonbar, from=Q15396322 Trees of Australia kabiana Myrtales of Australia Flora of Queensland Plants described in 1991 Taxa named by Lawrence Alexander Sidney Johnson Taxa named by Ken Hill (botanist)