Family:
Myrtaceae Juss.
Genus:
Eucalyptus L'Hér.
Species:
Eucalyptus globulus Labill.

Eucalyptus globulus subsp. maidenii (F.Muell.) J.B.Kirkp.

This subspecies is accepted, and its native range is SE. New South Wales to E. Victoria.

[FTEA]

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

Morphology General Habit
Tree 15–46(–54) m tall with dark deciduous bark (save at extreme base of trunk) leaving smooth white-yellow beneath; bluish white or blotched stems and branches.
Morphology Leaves
Juvenile leaves opposite for many pairs, 4–16(–91) cm long, 4–12 cm wide; adult lanceolate, 12–28 cm long, 1.2–2.5(–3) cm wide, thick; petiole channelled or terete, 1.5–3.5 cm long.
Morphology Reproductive morphology Inflorescences
Umbels 7-flowered; peduncle compressed, 0.8–2.5 cm long [5.5 mm wide]; pedicels absent or up to 8 mm long.
Morphology General Buds
Buds glaucous; operculum hemispherical to broadly conical, 3–4 mm long, 5–7 mm wide, smooth to distinctly verrucose.
Morphology Reproductive morphology Flowers Calyx
Calyx-tube 5–7 mm long and wide.
Morphology Reproductive morphology Fruits
Fruits turbinate, (5–)8–11 mm long (6–)10[–12] mm wide, 1–2-ribbed with 3–4 strongly exserted valves; disc thick, convex, partly fused to valves.
Figures
Fig. 8/22.
Distribution
K4 K6 T2 T3

Native to:

New South Wales, Victoria

Introduced into:

China South-Central, China Southeast, Free State, Hawaii, Italy, Kenya, Lesser Sunda Is., Portugal, Rwanda, Sardegna, Sicilia, Spain, St.Helena, Tanzania

Eucalyptus globulus subsp. maidenii (F.Muell.) J.B.Kirkp. appears in other Kew resources:

First published in Bot. J. Linn. Soc. 69: 101 (1974)

Accepted by

  • Govaerts, R. (2003). World Checklist of Selected Plant Families Database in ACCESS: 1-216203. The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
  • Govaerts, R., Sobral, N., Ashton, P., Barrie, F., Holst, B.K., Landrum, L.L., Matsumoto, K., Fernanda Mazine, F., Nic Lughadha, E., Proença, C. & al. (2008). World Checklist of Myrtaceae: 1-455. Kew Publishing, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
  • Wu, Z., Raven, P.H. & Hong, D. (eds.) (2007). Flora of China 13: 1-548. Missouri Botanical Garden Press, St. Louis.

Literature

Kew Backbone Distributions

  • Girmansyah, D. & al. (eds.) (2013). Flora of Bali an annotated checklist: 1-158. Herbarium Bogorensis, Indonesia.
  • Lambdon, P. (2012). Flowering plants & ferns of St Helena: 1-624. Pisces publications for St Helena nature conservation group.
  • Wagner, W.L., Herbst, D.R. & Sohmer, S.H. (1999). Manual of the Flowering Plants of Hawai'i, rev. ed., 1: 1-988. University of Hawai'i Press, Bishop Museum Press.

  • Flora of Tropical East Africa

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

  • Kew Backbone Distributions

    The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Selected Plant Families 2022. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and http://apps.kew.org/wcsp/
    © Copyright 2017 World Checklist of Selected Plant Families. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0

  • Kew Names and Taxonomic Backbone

    The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Selected Plant Families 2022. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and http://apps.kew.org/wcsp/
    © Copyright 2017 International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Selected Plant Families. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0