''Eucalyptus notabilis'', commonly known as Blue Mountains mahogany or mountain mahogany, is a species of small to medium-sized tree endemic to eastern Australia. It has rough, fibrous bark on the trunk and branches, lance-shaped to curved adult leaves, flower buds in groups of between seven and eleven, white flowers and hemispherical or conical fruit.

Description

''Eucalyptus notabilis'' is a tree, rarely a mallee, that typically grows to a height of and forms a lignotuber. It has persistent, rough, stringy, grey to reddish brown bark on the trunk and branches. Young plants and coppice regrowth have dull green leaves that are paler on the lower surface, long and wide and

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 ...

. Adult leaves are lance-shaped to curved, glossy green on the upper surface, paler below, long and wide, tapering to a petiole 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 in groups of seven, nine or eleven 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 ...

long, the individual buds sessile or on pedicels up to long. Mature buds are oval to pear-shaped, long and wide with a conical to rounded or beaked operculum. Flowering has been recorded in October and the flowers are white. The fruit is a woody hemispherical or conical capsule long and wide with the valves strongly protruding.

Taxonomy and naming

''Eucalyptus notabilis'' was first formally described in 1920 by Joseph Maiden in ''

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'' from specimens collected at Glenbrook by Richard Cambage and Maiden. 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 ...

(''notabilis'') is a Latin word meaning "noteworthy", referring to the stature of some examples of this species. Maiden referred to it as "a handsome species".

Distribution and habitat

Blue Mountains mahogany grows at high altitude in dry forest and occurs in disjunct areas between the

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in south-eastern Queensland, the Gibraltar Range and the Blue Mountains.

References

{{Taxonbar, from=Q5405643 notabilis Myrtales of Australia Flora of New South Wales Flora of Queensland Plants described in 1920 Taxa named by Joseph Maiden