Eucalyptus obstans

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Port Jackson mallee
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mallee at Ku-ring-gai Chase National Park, New South Wales
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Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Rosids
Order: Myrtales
Family: Myrtaceae
Genus: Eucalyptus
Species:
E. obstans
Binomial name
Eucalyptus obstans

Eucalyptus obstans, commonly known as the Port Jackson mallee, is a common eucalyptus of south eastern Australia. It grows as a multi-stemmed mallee reaching 4 metres in height. [1]

The bark is smooth, grey or greenish. It grows on poor shallow sandstone soils from Ku-ring-gai Chase National Park to Jervis Bay. [2]

Eucalyptus obstans was first formally described in 1991 by Lawrie Johnson and Ken Hill in the journal Telopea , [3] but the Australian Plant Census considers E. obstans to be a synonym of E. burgessiana . [4]

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References

  1. A Field Guide to Eucalypts - Brooker & Kleinig volume 1, ISBN   0-909605-62-9 page 98
  2. "Eucalyptus obstans, PlantNET - NSW Flora Online" . Retrieved 19 November 2010.
  3. "Eucalyptus obstans". APNI. Retrieved 19 December 2019.
  4. "Eucalyptus burgessiana". Australian Plant Census. Retrieved 19 December 2019.