Английская Википедия:Eucalyptus aridimontana

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Eucalyptus aridimontana is a mallee that is endemic to a small area in the Pilbara region of Western Australia. It has smooth bark, lance-shaped adult leaves, flower buds in groups of seven or nine, white flowers and barrel-shaped fruit.

Description

Eucalyptus aridimontana is a mallee that grows to a height of Шаблон:Convert and forms a lignotuber. The bark is grey and cream-coloured and smooth over the length of the tree. The leaves on young plants and on coppice regrowth are dull green to bluish, lance-shaped and up to Шаблон:Convert long and Шаблон:Convert wide. The adult leaves are lance-shaped, mostly Шаблон:Convert long and Шаблон:Convert wide. The flower buds are borne in groups of seven or nine on the ends of the branches and in leaf axils on a thickened peduncle Шаблон:Convert long, the individual flowers on a pedicel Шаблон:Convert long. The mature buds are club-shaped, Шаблон:Convert wide with a conical operculum. The flowers are white and the fruit are barrel-shaped, Шаблон:Convert long and Шаблон:Convert wide.[1][2]

Taxonomy and naming

Eucalyptus aridimontana was first formally described in 2012 by Dean Nicolle and Malcolm E. French from a specimen collected near Tom Price. The description was published in the journal Nuytsia.[1][3] The specific epithet (aridimontana) is derived from Latin words meaning "dry" and "montane", referring to the habitat of this species.[1][4]

Distribution and habitat

This mallee grows in skeletal soils on the slopes, ridges and summits of high mountains in the Hamersley Range of the Gascoyne and Pilbara biogeographic regions.[1][2]

Conservation

Eucalyptus aridimontana is classified as "not threatened" by the Western Australian Government Department of Parks and Wildlife.[2]

See also

References

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