Английская Википедия:Eucalyptus ammophila

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Eucalyptus ammophila, commonly known as the sandplain red gum,[1] is a mallee that is endemic to central and southern Queensland. It has rough fibrous bark near the base and smooth greyish and orange to bronze bark higher up. It has lance-shaped leaves, yellow or creamy flower buds in groups of between seven and eleven, white flowers and hemispherical fruit with strongly raised valves.

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Description

Eucalyptus ammophila is a mallee that grows to Шаблон:Convert high, rarely a small, multistemmed tree, and forms a lignotuber. The trunk has rough, fibrous, greyish brown bark and the upper parts of the trunk and the branches have smooth greyish and orange to bronze-coloured bark. Young plants and coppice regrowth have square stems and broad lance-shaped to egg-shaped leaves that are Шаблон:Convert long and Шаблон:Convert wide with a short petiole. Adult leaves are lance-shaped, Шаблон:Convert long and Шаблон:Convert wide with a petiole Шаблон:Convert long. Both sides of the leaf are the same dull green, although bluish green at first.[2][3]

The flowers are arranged in groups of between seven and eleven in leaf axils on a peduncle Шаблон:Convert long, each flower on a pedicel about Шаблон:Convert long. The mature flower buds are oval to spindle-shaped, yellow or cream-coloured, Шаблон:Convert long and about Шаблон:Convert wide. The operculum is cone-shaped and about Шаблон:Convert long. The fruit is a hemispherical capsule Шаблон:Convert long and Шаблон:Convert wide with the four, sometimes five, strongly raised valves.[2][3]

Taxonomy and naming

Eucalyptus ammophila was first formally described in 1994 by Ian Brooker and Andrew Slee from a specimen collected in the Maranoa region of Queensland, and the description was published in the journal Austrobaileya.[4] The specific epithet (ammophila) means "sand-loving".[2]

Distribution and habitat

The sandplain red gum grows on red or orange sandplains in central and southern Queensland, including areas near Charleville, Yalleroi Jericho and the White Mountains.[3]

See also

References

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