Eucalyptus tenuipes, known as the narrow-leaved white mahogany,[2] is a species of small tree that is endemic to Queensland. It has rough, fibrous bark, narrow lance-shaped leaves arranged in opposite pairs, flower buds in group of eleven to twenty, white flowers and spherical to hemispherical fruit.
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| Eucalyptus tenuipes near Bauhinia | |
Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Eudicots |
| Clade: | Rosids |
| Order: | Myrtales |
| Family: | Myrtaceae |
| Genus: | Eucalyptus |
| Species: | E. tenuipes
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| Binomial name | |
| Eucalyptus tenuipes | |
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Description
editEucalyptus tenuipes is a tree that typically grows to a height of 5–15 m (16–49 ft) and forms a lignotuber. It has rough, greyish brown, fibrous bark on the trunk and branches. Young plants and coppice regrowth have sessile leaves that are paler on the lower surface, linear to narrow lance-shaped 70–155 mm (2.8–6.1 in) long, 4–12 mm (0.16–0.47 in) wide and arranged in opposite pairs. Adult leaves are arranged in opposite pairs, dull, dark green on the upper surface, much paler below, narrow lance-shaped to narrow elliptical, 50–135 mm (2.0–5.3 in) long and 8–20 mm (0.31–0.79 in) wide tapering to a petiole 4–15 mm (0.16–0.59 in) long. The flower buds are arranged on the ends of branchlets and in leaf axils in groups of eleven to twenty or more on a thin, branching peduncle 3–15 mm (0.12–0.59 in) long, the individual buds on pedicels 6–15 mm (0.24–0.59 in) long. Mature buds are spherical to pear-shaped or oval, 3–4 mm (0.12–0.16 in) long and 2–3 mm (0.079–0.118 in) wide with a hemispherical operculum. Flowering has been observed in January, March, May and July and the flowers are white. The fruit is a woody shortened spherical to hemispherical capsule 4–5 mm (0.16–0.20 in) long and wide with the valves near rim level.[2][3]
Taxonomy and naming
editIn 1928, Joseph Maiden and William Blakely described Eucalyptus acmenoides var. tenuipes in Maiden's book, A Critical Revision of the Genus Eucalyptus from specimens collected by Harald Ingemann Jensen near "Meteor Creek, South Central Queensland".[4][5] In 1931, Blakely and Cyril Tenison White raised the variety to species status as E. tenuipes in Proceedings of the Royal Society of Queensland.[6][7] The specific epithet (tenuipes) is from the Latin tenui- meaning "slender" or "thin" and pes meaning "foot", referring to the thin pedicels of the flower buds.[2]
Distribution and habitat
editEucalyptus tenuipes grows in open forest on gently slopes between Rockhampton and St George and sporadically further north.
Conservation status
editThis eucalypt is classified as "least concern" under the Queensland Government Nature Conservation Act 1992.[8]
See also
editReferences
edit- ^ a b "Eucalyptus tenuipes". Australian Plant Census. Retrieved 6 January 2020.
- ^ a b c "Eucalyptus tenuipes". Euclid: Centre for Australian National Biodiversity Research. Retrieved 28 May 2020.
- ^ Chippendale, George M. "Eucalyptus tenuipes". Australian Biological Resources Study, Department of the Environment and Energy, Canberra. Retrieved 6 January 2020.
- ^ "Eucalyptus acmenoides var. tenuipes". APNI. Retrieved 6 January 2020.
- ^ Maiden, Joseph (1928). A Critical Revision of the Genus Eucalyptus. Sydney: New South Wales Government Printer. p. 464. Retrieved 6 January 2020.
- ^ "Eucalyptus tenuipes". APNI. Retrieved 6 January 2020.
- ^ Blakely, William; White, Cyril T. (1931). "Two interesting Queensland ecualypts". Proceedings of the Royal Society of Queensland. 42 (9): 84–85. Retrieved 6 January 2020.
- ^ "Narrow-leaved white mahogany – Eucalyptus tenuipes". WetlandInfo. Queensland Government. Retrieved 6 January 2020.