Английская Википедия:Eucalyptus megacornuta
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Eucalyptus megacornuta, also known as warted yate or warty yate,[1] is a species of Eucalyptus that is endemic to the south-west of Western Australia.[2]
Description
The tree typically grows to a height of Шаблон:Convert[2] with a crown of up to about Шаблон:Convert wide. E. megacornuta has the habit of a small tree or shrub with a smooth brown to grey-red and green trunk[1] and smooth bark over the length of the trunk and branches. The dull, green, thick and concolorous adult leaves have a disjunct arrangement. The leaf blade has lanceolate to elliptic shape that is basally tapered.[3]
It produces large yellow-green flowers that occur from July to October in the species' native range.[2] Each simple, axillary conflorescence is made up of three to seven flowered umbellasters on broadly flattened peduncles.[3] The fruits or capsules are clustered and sessile on a flattened peduncle. They have a campanulate shape with one prominent rib with many weak ribs. The capsules are Шаблон:Convert in length and Шаблон:Convert wide with three exserted valves.[4]
Taxonomy
The species was formally described by botanist Charles Austin Gardner in 1942[5] as part of the work Contributiones Florae Australiae Occidentalis as published in the Journal of the Royal Society of Western Australia.[6] The type specimen was collected by Gardner in 1935 near Ravensthorpe.[3] The specific epithet (megacornuta) means "large-horned", referring to the operculum.[7]
E. megacornuta is very similar in appearance to the closely related Beaufort Inlet Mallee (Eucalyptus newbeyi) and Burdett's mallee (Eucalyptus burdettiana).[8]
Distribution
The species is found on hillsides and in creek beds along the south coast in the Great Southern and Goldfields-Esperance region of Western Australia between Albany and Hopetoun,[2] particularly in the Ravensthorpe Range,[1] where it grows in loamy alluvium soils over granite or laterite.
Conservation status
Eucalyptus megacornuta is listed as "endangered" under the Australian Government Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999[8] but as "not threatened" by the Western Australian Government Department of Parks and Wildlife.[2]
Use in horticulture
The species is sold commercially in seed for or as tube stock, it grows well in full or par sun and is drought tolerant once established. A fast growing plant it can be used as an ornamental or privacy screening. The tree produces abundant nectar when it flowers so it is prized by apiarists and is a good bird attractor. The dried seed pods are also used in flower arrangements.[1]
See also
References
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