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''Eucalyptus merrickiae'', commonly known as goblet mallee, is a species of mallee that is endemic to a small area on the south coast of Western Australia. It has rough, flaky bark on part or all of the trunk, sometimes on the base of the larger branches, linear adult leaves, flower buds in groups of three, creamy white flowers and cylindrical fruit.
''Eucalyptus merrickiae'', commonly known as goblet mallee, is a species of mallee that is endemic to a small area on the south coast of Western Australia. It has rough, flaky bark on part or all of the trunk, sometimes on the base of the larger branches, linear adult leaves, flower buds in groups of three, creamy white flowers and cylindrical fruit.
Description
''Eucalyptus merrickiae'' is a mallee that typically grows to a height of , sometimes a bushy shrub, and forms a lignotuber. It has rough, flaky greyish bark on part or all of the trunk, sometimes also on the base of the larger branches, and smooth grey bark above. The adult leaves are the same shade of green on both sides, linear, long and wide on a petiole long. The flower buds are arranged in groups of three on an 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
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 ...
up to long. The individual buds are cylindrical, long and wide with a conical or rounded operculum. Flowering occurs between August and November and the flowers are creamy white to pinkish. The fruit is a woody cylindrical capsule long and wide with the valves close to rim level.
Taxonomy and naming
''Eucalyptus merrickiae'' was first formally described in 1925 by Joseph Maiden and William Blakely and the description was published in the ''Journal and Proceedings of the Royal Society of New South Wales
A journal, from the Old French ''journal'' (meaning "daily"), may refer to:
*Bullet journal, a method of personal organization
*Diary, a record of what happened over the course of a day or other period
*Daybook, also known as a general journal, a ...
''. 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 ...
honours Mary Merrick, who was employed at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Sydney from 1921 to about 1927.
Distribution and habitat
Goblet mallee is mostly found near the northeastern side of salt lakes to the east of the highway between Scadden andSalmon Gums
Salmon () is the common name for several commercially important species of euryhaline ray-finned fish from the family Salmonidae, which are native to tributaries of the North Atlantic (genus '' Salmo'') and North Pacific (genus ''Oncorhynch ...
where it grows in sand and sandy clay.
Conservation status
This eucalypt is classed as "vulnerable" under the Australian Government '' Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999'' and as " Threatened Flora (Declared Rare Flora — Extant)" by the Department of Environment and Conservation (Western Australia). The main threats to the species are the small number of individual plants and the restricted distribution of the species.See also
* List of ''Eucalyptus'' speciesReferences
{{Taxonbar, from=Q15396850 Eucalypts of Western Australia Trees of Australia merrickiae Myrtales of Australia Plants described in 1925 Mallees (habit) Taxa named by Joseph Maiden Taxa named by William Blakely