Английская Википедия:Eucalyptus brandiana
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Eucalyptus brandiana is a mallet that is endemic to a small area in the Fitzgerald River National Park in Western Australia. It has smooth, shiny silvery bark, oblong to lance-shaped, glossy green adult leaves, single red flower buds in leaf axils, pink flowers and prominently winged fruit.
Description
Eucalyptus brandiana is a mallet that grows to a height of up to Шаблон:Convert, lacks a lignotuber and only has leaves on the outer half of the stems. It has smooth, shiny silver grey bark that is shed in strips. Young plants have reddish green, elliptic leaves mostly Шаблон:Convert long and Шаблон:Convert wide on a petiole Шаблон:Convert long. Adult leaves are glossy green, oblong to lance-shaped, Шаблон:Convert long and Шаблон:Convert wide on thick, flattened petiole Шаблон:Convert long. The flower buds are arranged singly in leaf axils on a down-curved peduncle. The mature flower buds are red, square in cross section with prominent wings, Шаблон:Convert long and Шаблон:Convert wide with a red, pyramid shaped operculum. Peak flowering occurs in late winter to spring and the flowers are pink. The fruit is a woody, shortly oblong, pendulous capsule Шаблон:Convert long and Шаблон:Convert wide with prominent wings and the valves enclosed.[1]
Taxonomy
Eucalyptus brandiana was first formally described by Stephen Hopper and Nathan K. McQuoid and the description was published in Australian Systematic Botany from a specimen at the Fitzgerald River Inlet.[2] The specific epithet (brandiana) honours Grady Brand, the curator of the Western Australian Botanic Garden, Kings Park and Botanic Garden.[1]
This species often hybridises with E. arborella.[1]
Distribution
This mallet grows on spongolite hills and escarpments near the Fitzgerald River Inlet. Other species common in the same area include E. arborella, E. falcata, Banksia lemanniana and B. laevigata.[1][3]
Conservation
Eucalyptus brandiana is classified as "Priority Two" by the Western Australian Government Department of Parks and Wildlife[3] meaning that it is poorly known and from only one or a few locations.[4]
See also
References
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- Endemic flora of Western Australia
- Myrtales of Australia
- Eucalypts of Western Australia
- Plants described in 2009
- Taxa named by Stephen Hopper
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