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''Eucalyptus similis'', commonly known as the inland yellowjacket or the Queensland yellowjacket, is a
''Eucalyptus similis'', commonly known as the inland yellowjacket or the Queensland yellowjacket, is a eucalypt
Eucalypt is a descriptive name for woody plants with capsule fruiting bodies belonging to seven closely related genera (of the tribe Eucalypteae) found across Australasia:
''Eucalyptus'', '' Corymbia'', '' Angophora'', ''Stockwellia'', ''Allosyn ...
that is native to Queensland
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Description
The medium sized tree typically grows to a height of . It has yellow-brown or orange, brown or yellow, bark that is persistent throughout. The bark is tessellated or fibrous-flaky with whitish patches that sheds in short ribbons or small polygonal flakes. Adult leaves are disjunct, glossy green or grey-green and discolorous. The leaf blade islanceolate
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in shape and basally tapered with a length of and a width of . When the tree blooms in December it produces simple axillary conflorescences with three to seven flowered umbellasters and terete peduncles and white to cream flowers. Flowers have a diameter of approximately . Fruit appear later which are a cylindrical cup shaped woody capsules long and wide containing grey seeds. It is very similar in appearance to '' Corymbia leichhardtii''.
Taxonomy and naming
''Eucalyptus similis'' was first formally described by thebotanist
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Joseph Maiden
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in 1913 in the '' Journal and Proceedings of the Royal Society of New South Wales'' from samples collected by G.H. Carr from near Emerald
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in 1908. The specific epithet
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(''similis'') is a Latin
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word, referring to the similarity, in Maiden's view, to '' E. baileyana''.
''E. similis'' is in the ''Eucalyptus'' subgenus ''Eudesmia'' and is the only non-bloodwood species likely to be confused with the yellow bloodwoods. It has very similar bark but differs fundamentally in having buds in simple axillary umbels of 7, and lacks the outer operculum, instead having four calyx teeth, and also has a single petaline operculum.
Distribution
Found in woodland communities it grows on gentle slopes and flats in deep clay, loamy or sandy soils. The range of the tree is fromJericho
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in inland Central Queensland
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extending north to Laura
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on Cape York in North Queensland
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.
''E. similis'' often occurs with '' Corymbia setosa'' form a sparse canopy. Associated species in the shrub layer, which is also usually sparse, includes ''Lithomyrtus microphylla'', ''Carissa lanceolata'', ''Gastrolobium grandiflorum'' and ''Jacksonia ramosissima''. ''Triodia pungens
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'' usually dominants the very sparse to sparse ground layer.
Use in horticulture
''E. similis'' can be propagated from seed and is suited to drier areas and is planted as a small shade tree for loamy or sandy soils.See also
* List of ''Eucalyptus'' speciesReferences
{{Taxonbar, from=Q15355696 Trees of Australia similis Myrtales of Australia Flora of Queensland Plants described in 1913