''Eucalyptus lane-poolei'', commonly known as salmon white gum, is a species of tree or 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 else ...

to Western Australia. It has smooth but scaly-looking bark, narrow lance-shaped or curved adult leaves, flower buds in groups of seven, creamy white flowers and hemispherical fruit.

Description

''Eucalyptus lane-poolei'' is a tree or mallee 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 ...

. It has smooth whitish grey to orange-brown bark, often appearing scaly due to partly shed flakes of older bark. 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, light green, egg-shaped leaves that are long and wide. Adult leaves are narrow lance-shaped to curved, long and wide, the base tapering to a petiole long. The flower buds are arranged in leaf axils in groups of seven 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 more or less spherical to oval, long and wide with a rounded operculum. Flowering occurs between January and April or June and September and the flowers are creamy white. The fruit is a woody, hemispherical capsule long and wide. There is a prominent, thick, sloping scar left after the operculum is shed and the valves extend beyond the rim of the fruit. Prior to flowering, this eucalypt forms ornamental globose buds. The branches of the main stem are twisting and spreading and the

is large, allowing regeneration after fire. New branches may emerge from the bole without response to fire, and these intertwine with the older trunk to produce a tangled and irregular appearance as mature trees.

Taxonomy and naming

''Eucalyptus lane-poolei'' was first formally described in 1919 by

Joseph Maiden Joseph Henry Maiden (25 April 1859 – 16 November 1925) was a botanist who made a major contribution to knowledge of the Australian flora, especially the genus ''Eucalyptus''. This botanist is denoted by the author abbreviation when citing ...

from a specimen collected in the same year at

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(previously known as "Beenup") by the Western Australian forester Charles Edward Lane-Poole. The specific epithet (''lane-poolei'') honours Lane-Poole "who collected this species, and who has done much to promote the study of this genus in his State".

Distribution and habitat

Salmon white gum is found on slopes and creek banks along the west coast in the Wheatbelt, Peel and

South West The points of the compass are a set of horizontal, radially arrayed compass directions (or azimuths) used in navigation and cartography. A compass rose is primarily composed of four cardinal directions—north, east, south, and west—each se ...

regions of Western Australia extending from Coorow in the north to Busselton in the south where it grows in sandy or sandy-loam soils containing

lateritic Laterite is both a soil and a rock type rich in iron and aluminium and is commonly considered to have formed in hot and wet tropical areas. Nearly all laterites are of rusty-red coloration, because of high iron oxide content. They develop by ...

granitic A granitoid is a generic term for a diverse category of coarse-grained igneous rocks that consist predominantly of quartz, plagioclase, and alkali feldspar. Granitoids range from plagioclase-rich tonalites to alkali-rich syenites and from quartz- ...

gravel. It is native through most of the range but has become naturalised elsewhere. A distinct population is found on the western side of the

Darling Range The Darling Scarp, also referred to as the Darling Range or Darling Ranges, is a low escarpment running north–south to the east of the Swan Coastal Plain and Perth, Western Australia. The escarpment extends generally north of Bindoon, to t ...

. Associated species in the understorey include '' Banksia nivea'' or '' Baumea preissii''. The species favours Guildford soil of the Perth metropolitan region, on the Swan Coastal Plain, and occurs on wetter sites that inhibit otherwise dominant eucalypts, '' Eucalyptus calophylla'' (marri) and '' E. wandoo''.

Conservation status

This eucalypt is classified as "not threatened" by the Western Australian Government

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References

{{Taxonbar, from=Q7212894 Eucalypts of Western Australia Trees of Australia lane-poolei Myrtales of Australia Plants described in 1919 Taxa named by Joseph Maiden Endemic flora of Southwest Australia

Description

Taxonomy and naming

Distribution and habitat

Conservation status

See also

References