Eucalyptus corrugata (Eucalyptus corrugata)
Description
Eucalyptus corrugata, also known as rough fruited mallee, is a eucalypt that is native to Western Australia. The tree typically grows to a height of 4 to 15 metres (13 to 49 ft). The white or grey and grey-brown or yellow bark is smooth throughout or persistent on the base where it is fibrous-flaky with whitish patches. The adult leaves are disjunct, glossy, green, thick and concolorous. The blade has a narrow lanceolate or lanceolate to falcate shape that is basally tapered. When the tree blooms between October and March it forms a simple axillary conflorescence with three-flowered umbellasters and terete peduncles. Buds are clavate with calyptrate calyx that sheds early. Fruits form that are hemispherical with a depressed or flat disc and valves that are exserted. The species was first formally described by the botanist Johann George Luehmann in 1897 in the work Reliquiae Muellerianae: Descriptions of New Australian Plants in the Melbourne Herbarium. published in The Victorian Naturalist. It is distributed through a small are in the Goldfields-Esperance region of Western Australia south west of Kalgoorlie in scrub land where it grows in rocky clay loam soils.
Taxonomic tree
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Domain: Eukarya
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Kingdom: Plantae
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Class: Magnoliopsida
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Order: Myrtales
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Family: Myrtaceae
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Genus: Eucalyptus
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