Eucalyptus dissita (Eucalyptus dissita)
Description
Bark smooth to base,shedding in ribbons,pale green,yellow-brown and grey.Juvenile leaves blue-green,dull,opposite on early nodes,becoming disjunct-opposite,lanceolate,2.5-7 cm long,0.6-1.4 cm wide,sessile on early nodes,becoming petiolate,petioles to 0.7 cm long.Adult leaves glossy mid-green,disjunct-opposite,similifacial,lanceolate,acute or apiculate,4-8 cm long,0.7-1.8 cm wide;petioles 0.4-1.0 cm long.Inflorescences axillary;umbellasters many-flowered (more than 11).Peduncles terete,4-8 mm long.Pedicels terete,0.5-1.5 mm long.Mature buds fusiform,4-7 mm long,1.5-2.5 mm diam.Calyptra conical,acute,about as long as hypanthium.Stamens irregularly flexed,all fertile.Anthers versatile,reniform,opening by confluent diagonal slits.Fruits globular to truncate-globular,3-,rarely 4-locular,3-5 mm long,3-5 mm diam.Calyptra scar and stemonophore flat,<0.2 mm wide.Disc level,<1 mm wide.Valves broadly triangular,obtuse,level with stemonophore,slightly raised." The species is readily distinguished from Eucalyptus moorei (in which it had previously been included)
Taxonomic tree
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Domain: Eukarya
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Kingdom: Plantae
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Phylum:
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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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