Corymbia abbreviata

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Scraggy bloodwood
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Corymbia abbreviata near the Gibb River Road
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Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Rosids
Order: Myrtales
Family: Myrtaceae
Genus: Corymbia
Species:
C. abbreviata
Binomial name
Corymbia abbreviata
Synonyms [1]

Eucalyptus abbreviataBlakely & Jacobs

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flower buds

Corymbia abbreviata, also known as scraggy bloodwood, [2] is a species of straggly tree that is native to Western Australia and the Northern Territory. It has rough bark, a crown of stiff leaves arranged in opposite pairs, flower buds usually in crowded groups on the ends of branchlets and urn-shaped fruit.

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Description

Corymbia abbreviata is a straggly tree or shrub that typically grows to a height of 2.1 to 6 metres (7 to 20 ft) and forms a lignotuber. It has tessellated, flaky, grey-brown over red-brown bark. The branchlets are silvery to green, smooth, glabrous and lack oil glands in the pith. Young plants and coppice regrowth have sessile, stem-clasping, heart-shaped leaves, 150–230 mm (5.9–9.1 in) long, 80–150 mm (3.1–5.9 in) wide and arranged in opposite pairs. The crown has adult leaves that are similar to the juvenile leaves, heart-shaped to broadly lance-shaped, 70–235 mm (2.8–9.3 in) long, 30–110 mm (1.2–4.3 in) wide with the base stem-clasping or lobed. The flower buds are mostly arranged on the ends of branchlets on a branched peduncle 3–18 mm (0.12–0.71 in) long, each branch usually with seven buds, the buds sessile or on pedicels up to 3 mm (0.12 in) long. Mature buds are oval to pear-shaped, 11–16 mm (0.43–0.63 in) long and 9–12 mm (0.35–0.47 in) wide with a rounded operculum. Flowering occurs between July and January and the flowers are creamy white. The fruit is a smooth, woody, urn-shaped capsule 20–35 mm (0.79–1.38 in) long and 17–30 mm (0.67–1.18 in) wide with a conspicuous neck and the valves enclosed. [2] [3] [4] [5]

Taxonomy and naming

Scraggy bloodwood was first formally described in 1934 by William Blakely and Maxwell Jacobs and given the name Eucalyptus abbreviata, in Blakely's book A Key to the Eucalypts. [6] In 1995, Ken Hill and Lawrie Johnson changed the name to Corymbia abbreviata. [7] [5] The specific epithet (abbreviata) is from the Latin word abbreviatus meaning "shortened" referring to the flower heads. [2]

Distribution and habitat

Corymbia abbreviata has a scattered distribution extending from Wyndham and Karunji in the Kimberley region of Western Australia and east as far as Dorisvale and Willeroo in the Northern Territory. The distribution of C. abbreviata coincides with C. ferruginea . [4] It grows in skeletal soils, on stony slopes, ridges and outcrops of sandstone, granite or quartzite. [2] [3]

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References

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  2. 1 2 3 4 "Corymbia abbreviata". Euclid: Centre for Australian National Biodiversity Research. Retrieved 5 June 2020.
  3. 1 2 "Corymbia abbreviata". FloraBase . Western Australian Government Department of Biodiversity, Conservation and Attractions.
  4. 1 2 "Corymbia abbreviata (Blakely & Jacobs) K.D.Hill & L.A.S.Johnson". FloraNT. Northern Territory Government . Retrieved 18 September 2016.
  5. 1 2 Hill, Kenneth D.; Johnson, Lawrence A.S. (13 December 1995). "Systematic studies in the eucalypts. 7. A revision of the bloodwoods, genus Corymbia (Myrtaceae)". Telopea. 6 (2–3): 344–345. doi: 10.7751/telopea19953017 .
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  7. ↑ "Corymbia abbreviata". APNI. Retrieved 27 January 2020.
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