Myrtaceae
Eucalyptus

Eucalyptus melliodora A.Cunn. ex Schauer

First published in W.G.Walpers, Repert. Bot. Syst. 2: 924 (1843)
This species is accepted
The native range of this species is SE. Queensland to Victoria. It is a tree and grows primarily in the subtropical biome.

Descriptions

Myrtaceae, B. Verdcourt, B.Sc., Ph.D. Flora of Tropical East Africa. 2001

Morphology General Habit
Tree to 30 m with grey, yellow or red-brown fibrous bark on lower trunk and sometimes larger branches, yellowish white and smooth above.
Morphology Leaves
Juvenile leaves ovate or elliptic; adult lanceolate, 6.5–14 cm long, 0.8–1.8 cm wide; petiole terete or slightly flattened, 1–1.5 cm long.
Morphology Reproductive morphology Inflorescences
Umbels 7-flowered; peduncle terete or quadrangular, 0.3–1.1[1.5] cm long; pedicels 2–9 mm long.
Morphology General Buds
Buds clavate to fusiform; operculum conical to rostrate, 2–3 mm long, ± 3 mm wide, usually narrower than the hemispherical calyx-tube which is 3–4 mm long and wide.
Morphology Reproductive morphology Fruits
Fruits hemispherical, ovoid to subglobular, 4–7 mm long and wide with narrow descending disc and obscured by a prominent dark staminal ring and usually 5 flush or included valves.
Figures
Fig. 8/23, p. 41.
Distribution
K3 K4 K5 U2
[FTEA]

Extinction risk predictions for the world's flowering plants to support their conservation (2024). Bachman, S.P., Brown, M.J.M., Leão, T.C.C., Lughadha, E.N., Walker, B.E. https://nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/nph.19592

Conservation
Predicted extinction risk: not threatened. Confidence: confident
[AERP]

IUCN Red List of Threatened Species https://www.iucnredlist.org/species/61913766/61913768

Conservation
VU - vulnerable
[IUCN]

Common Names

unknown
iron box, yellow box

Sources

  • Angiosperm Extinction Risk Predictions v1

    • Angiosperm Threat Predictions
    • http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0

  • EBC Common Names

    • Common Names from Kew's Economic Botany Collection https://www.kew.org/science/collections-and-resources/collections/economic-botany-collection

  • Flora of Tropical East Africa

    • Flora of Tropical East Africa
    • http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0

  • Herbarium Catalogue Specimens

    • Digital Image © Board of Trustees, RBG Kew http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

  • IUCN Categories

    • IUCN Red List of Threatened Species
    • http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0

  • Kew Backbone Distributions

    • The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants 2026. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and https://powo.science.kew.org/
    • © Copyright 2023 World Checklist of Vascular Plants. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0

  • Kew Names and Taxonomic Backbone

    • The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants 2026. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and https://powo.science.kew.org/
    • © Copyright 2023 International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0