''Eucalyptus sabulosa'', commonly known as Wimmera scentbark,
is a species of small, spreading tree that is
endemic to Victoria, Australia. It has fibrous or scaly bark on the trunk and branches, lance-shaped to curved adult leaves, flower buds in groups of seven, white flowers and oval to almost spherical fruit.
Description
''Eucalyptus sabulosa'' is a tree that typically grows to a height of . It has thick, rough, fibrous or scaly bark on the trunk and branches, smooth,
salmon-coloured bark on the thin branches. Young plants have
sessile or shortly
petiolate
Petiole may refer to:
*Petiole (botany), the stalk of a leaf, attaching the blade to the stem
*Petiole (insect anatomy)
In entomology, petiole is the technical term for the narrow waist of some hymenopteran insects, especially ants, bees, a ...
, linear to lance-shaped to curved leaves that are long and wide. Adult leaves are lance-shaped to curved, long and wide on a petiole up to long. The flower buds are arranged 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 ...
up to long, the individual buds on short
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 ...
. Mature buds are oval or spindle-shaped, up to long and wide with a conical
operculum. Flowering occurs from March to April and the flowers are white. The fruit is a woody, oval to more or less spherical
capsule up to long and wide with the valves slightly protruding.
Taxonomy and naming
''Eucalyptus sabulosa'' was first formally described in 1996 by
Kevin James Rule in the journal ''
Muelleria'', from a specimen collected south of
Nhill
Nhill is a town in the Wimmera, in western Victoria (Australia), Victoria, Australia. Nhill is located on the Western Highway, Victoria, Western Highway, halfway between Adelaide and Melbourne. At the , Nhill had a
population of 1,749. "Nhill" i ...
in 1981.
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 ...
(''sabulosa'') is a
Latin word meaning "of the sand", referring to the habitat of this species.
Distribution
This eucalypt occurs in parts of the
Grampians
The Grampian Mountains (''Am Monadh'' in Scottish Gaelic, Gaelic) is one of the three major mountain ranges in Scotland, that together occupy about half of Scotland. The other two ranges are the Northwest Highlands and the Southern Uplands. T ...
and west to
Cavendish and the eastern edge of the
Little Desert
Little is a synonym for small size and may refer to:
Arts and entertainment
* ''Little'' (album), 1990 debut album of Vic Chesnutt
* ''Little'' (film), 2019 American comedy film
*The Littles, a series of children's novels by American author John P ...
.
See also
*
List of ''Eucalyptus'' species
References
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Flora of Victoria (state)
Trees of Australia
sabulosa
Myrtales of Australia
Plants described in 1996