Английская Википедия:Eucalyptus creta
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Eucalyptus creta, commonly known as the large-fruited gimlet,[1] is a species of mallet or tree that is endemic to Western Australia. It has smooth, shiny bark, lance-shaped adult leaves, flower buds in groups of three in leaf axils, relatively large white to creamy yellow flowers, and broadly hemispherical to bell-shaped fruit.
Description
Eucalyptus creta is a mallet or tree that typically grows to a height of Шаблон:Cvt but does not form a lignotuber. It has smooth, shiny, yellowish, greenish or brownish to copper-coloured bark. Adult leaves are narrow lance-shaped, the same glossy green on both sides, Шаблон:Cvt long and Шаблон:Cvt wide on a petiole Шаблон:Cvt long. The flower buds are arranged in groups of three in leaf axils on a peduncle Шаблон:Cvt long, the individual buds sessile. Mature buds are oval, Шаблон:Cvt long and Шаблон:Cvt wide with a wing on two sides of the floral cup and a beaked operculum. Flowering occurs in May and the flowers are white to creamy yellow. The fruit is a woody, hemispherical to shallow cup-shaped capsule with two wings along the sides and the valves at the same level as the rim or extended beyond it.[1][2][3][4]
Taxonomy and naming
Eucalyptus creta was first formally described in 1991 by Lawrie Johnson and Ken Hill from a specimen collected north of Mount Ney, north-east of Esperance.[3][5] The specific epithet (creta) is a Latin word meaning "grow" or "increase",[6] "referring to the buds, flowers and fruit".[3]
Distribution and habitat
Large-fruited gimlet is locally common in a restricted area north-east of Esperance in the Esperance Plains and Mallee biogeographic regions, where it grows on calcareous plains in sandy loam or clay with little understorey vegetation.[2][4]
Conservation status
This eucalypt is classified as "Priority Three" by the Government of Western Australia Department of Parks and Wildlife[2] meaning that it is poorly known and known from only a few locations but is not under imminent threat.[7]
See also
References
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- Английская Википедия
- Eucalyptus
- Endemic flora of Western Australia
- Mallees (habit)
- Myrtales of Australia
- Eucalypts of Western Australia
- Trees of Australia
- Goldfields-Esperance
- Endangered flora of Australia
- Taxa named by Lawrence Alexander Sidney Johnson
- Taxa named by Ken Hill (botanist)
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