''Eucalyptus macrorhyncha'', commonly known as the red stringybark,
is a species of medium-sized tree 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 elsew ...
to eastern Australia. It has rough, stringy, grey to brown bark, lance-shaped adult leaves, flower buds in groups of between seven and eleven, white flowers and hemispherical fruit.
Description
''Eucalyptus macrorhyncha'' is a tree 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 rough, stringy, grey to reddish brown bark on the trunk and branches. 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 repeated ...
regrowth have egg-shaped leaves long and wide. Adult leaves are lance-shaped to curved, the same dull to glossy green colour on both sides, long and wide on a
petiole long. The flower buds are arranged in groups of seven, nine or eleven in leaf axils 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 diamond-shaped, long and wide with a beaked
operculum. Flowering occurs between February and July and the flowers are white. The fruit is a woody hemispherical or shortened spherical
capsule long and wide with the valves protruding above the rim of the fruit.
Near
Bundarra and
Barraba
Barraba is a town in the New England region of northern New South Wales, Australia. It was formerly the centre of Barraba Shire local government area, but most of this, including Barraba, was absorbed into Tamworth Regional Council in 2004. On ...
, this species is difficult to distinguish from ''
E. laevopinea''.
Taxonomy and naming
''Eucalyptus macrorhyncha'' was first formally described in 1867 by
George Bentham
George Bentham (22 September 1800 – 10 September 1884) was an English botanist, described by the weed botanist Duane Isely as "the premier systematic botanist of the nineteenth century". Born into a distinguished family, he initially studi ...
based on specimens collected by
Frederick Adamson and by
Ferdinand von Mueller
Baron Sir Ferdinand Jacob Heinrich von Mueller, (german: Müller; 30 June 1825 – 10 October 1896) was a German-Australian physician, geographer, and most notably, a botanist. He was appointed government botanist for the then colony of Vict ...
who gave the species its name and wrote an unpublished description. The formal description was published in ''
Flora Australiensis
''Flora Australiensis: a description of the plants of the Australian Territory'', more commonly referred to as ''Flora Australiensis'', and also known by its standard abbreviation ''Fl. Austral.'', is a seven-volume flora of Australia published be ...
''.
In 1973,
Lawrie Johnson
Lawrence Alexander Sidney Johnson Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science, FAA, (26 June 1925 – 1 August 1997) known as Lawrie Johnson, was an Australian Taxonomy (biology), taxonomic botany, botanist. He worked at the Royal Botanic Garden ...
and
Donald Blaxell
Donald Frederick Blaxell (born 1 February 1934, Sydney, New South Wales), is an Australian botanist, botanical collector and taxonomist.
Blaxell worked at the University of New South Wales for 11 years and joined the New south Wales Herbarium in ...
changed the name of ''Eucalyptus cannonii'' to ''E. macrorhyncha'' subsp. ''cannonii'' and the names of the two subspecies are accepted by the
Australian Plant Census The Australian Plant Census (APC) provides an online interface to currently accepted, published, scientific names of the vascular flora of Australia, as one of the output interfaces of the national government Integrated Biodiversity Information Syst ...
:
* ''Eucalyptus macrorhyncha'' subsp. ''cannonii''
(R.T.Baker
Richard Thomas Baker (1 December 1854 – 14 July 1941) was an Australian economic botanist, museum curator and educator.
Early life
Baker was born in Woolwich, England, son of Richard Thomas Baker, a blacksmith, and his wife Sarah, née Colkett ...
) L.A.S.Johnson & Blaxell has larger buds and wider fruit with more protruding valves than subspecies ''macrorhyncha'';
* ''Eucalyptus macrorhyncha''
F.Muell. ex Benth. subsp. ''macrorhyncha''.
The
Wiradjuri
The Wiradjuri people (; ) are a group of Aboriginal Australian people from central New South Wales
)
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people of
New South Wales
)
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, es ...
use the name ''gundhay'' for the species.
Distribution and habitat
Red stringybark occurs on ranges and tablelands of New South Wales, the Australian Capital Territory and Victoria, with a small, disjunct population in the
Spring Gully Conservation Park
Spring Gully Conservation Park, formerly the Spring Gully National Park), is a protected area located in the Australian state of South Australia in the localities of Sevenhills and Spring Gully about south of the town centre in Clare.
Th ...
south-west of Clare in South Australia.
[Brooker, M.I.H. & Kleinig, D.A. Field Guide to Eucalyptus, Bloomings, Melbourne 2001]
Gallery
Image:Stringy bark leaf443.jpg, leaf
Image:Stringy bark nut.jpg, fruit
Image:Eucalyptus macrorhyncha Stringy bark.jpg, bark
References
External links
{{Taxonbar, from=Q4529693
macrorhyncha
Myrtales of Australia
Flora of the Australian Capital Territory
Flora of New South Wales
Flora of South Australia
Flora of Victoria (Australia)
Taxa named by Ferdinand von Mueller
Taxa named by George Bentham
Plants described in 1867