Английская Википедия:Corymbia blakei

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Corymbia blakei, commonly known as ghost gum,[1] is a species of tree that is endemic to Queensland. It has smooth bark, sometimes with a stocking of rough bark on older specimens, linear to narrow lance-shaped adult leaves, flower buds usually in groups of three, creamy white flowers and barrel-shaped, cup-shaped or cylindrical fruit.

Description

Corymbia blakei is a tree that typically grows to a height of Шаблон:Convert and forms a lignotuber. It has smooth, powdery white to creamy grey bark, with a short stocking of rough, tessellated, dark grey bark at the base of older specimens. Young plants and coppice regrowth have heart-shaped, egg-shaped or elliptical leaves that are Шаблон:Cvt long and Шаблон:Cvt wide. Adult leaves are the same shade of green on both sides, linear, narrow lance-shaped or curved, Шаблон:Cvt long and Шаблон:Cvt wide, tapering to a petiole Шаблон:Cvt long. The flower buds are arranged in leaf axils on a branched peduncle up to Шаблон:Cvt long, each branch usually with three buds on pedicels Шаблон:Cvt long. Mature buds are pear-shaped, Шаблон:Cvt long and Шаблон:Cvt wide with a rounded operculum. Flowering has been recorded in December and the flowers are creamy white. The fruit is a woody barrel-shaped, cup-shaped or cylindrical capsule Шаблон:Cvt long and Шаблон:Cvt wide with the valves enclosed in the fruit.[1][2]

Taxonomy and naming

Corymbia blakei was first formally described in 1995 by Ken Hill and Lawrie Johnson from specimens collected by Stanley Thatcher Blake in 1936.[2][3] The specific epithet (blakei) honours the collector of the type specimens.[2]

Distribution and habitat

This ghost gum is endemic to an area in arid South West and Central West Queensland, extending from the Cory Range south west of Winton to the upper Paroo and Bulloo River area between Charleville and Quilpie.[1]

Conservation status

This eucalypt (as C. blakei subsp. blakei) is classified as of "least concern" under the Queensland Government Nature Conservation Act 1992.[4]

See also

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