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''Eucalyptus luteola'' is a species of mallee that is endemic to a small area of Western Australia. It has smooth grey bark with rough greyish ribbons near the base, linear to narrow lance-shaped adult leaves, flower buds in groups of eleven to thirteen, lemon-coloured flowers and cylindrical to barrel-shaped fruit.
Description
''Eucalyptus luteola'' is a mallee that typically grows to a height of and forms a lignotuber. It has smooth grey bark with rough and greyish ribbons at the base. Young plants have egg-shaped to lance-shaped leaves that are up to long and wide. Adult leaves are the same shade of slightly glossy green on both sides, linear to narrow lance-shaped, long and wide, tapering to a petiole long. The flower buds are arranged in leaf axils on a flattened, unbranchedpeduncle 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 pedicels long. Mature buds are spindle-shaped, long and wide with a horn-shaped operculum about three times as long as the floral cup. Flowering occurs from February to April and the flowers are lemon-coloured. The fruit is a woody cylindrical to barrel-shaped capsule long and wide.
Taxonomy and naming
''Eucalyptus luteola'' was first formally described in 1991 by Ian Brooker andStephen Hopper
Stephen Donald Hopper AC FLS FTSE (born 18 June 1951) is a Western Australian botanist. He graduated in Biology, specialising in conservation biology and vascular plants. Hopper has written eight books, and has over 200 publications to his n ...
from a specimen collected by Hopper near Lake King
Lake King is a town in the eastern Wheatbelt region of Western Australia, from Perth along State Route 40 between Kelmscott and Ravensthorpe. As of 2016, the town had a population of 95. The 2011 census recorded both the population of the ...
in 1985. The description was published in the journal '' Nuytsia''. 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 ...
(''luteola'') is a Latin word meaning "pale yellow", referring to the flower colour.
Distribution and habitat
This mallee is found in undulating country between Hyden and Ravensthorpe where it grows in sandy soils.Conservation status
This eucalypt is classified as "not threatened" in Western Australia 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 ...
.
See also
* List of ''Eucalyptus'' speciesReferences
{{Taxonbar, from=Q15397602 Eucalypts of Western Australia luteola Myrtales of Australia Plants described in 1991 Taxa named by Ian Brooker Taxa named by Stephen Hopper