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COOLABAH FACTS |
Map is from The Atlas of Living Australia web site, licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Australia License
Common Name
Coolabah
Description
Tree to 20 m. Bark varies from smooth and white or grey throughout to rough, fibrous, grey to grey-black on trunk and often on larger branches. Juvenile leaves alternate, lanceolate to broadly lanceolate, green to grey-green or glaucous, slightly discolorous. Adult leaves lanceolate or narrowly lanceolate, acute; lamina 8-17 cm long, 0.8-2.5 cm wide, dull, green or grey-green; lateral veins clearly visible, at 35° -60° ; intramarginal vein up to 1 mm from margin; petiole terete, 8-17 mm long. Umbels 7-flowered; peduncle terete, 3-9 mm long; pedicels 1-4 mm long. Buds usually ovoid, occasionally fusiform, often glaucous; operculum hemispherical, apiculate, or conical, 1-2 mm long, 2-3 mm wide; hypanthium obconical, c. 2 mm long, 2-3 mm wide. Fruits hemispherical or obconical, 1-5 mm long, 3-7 mm wide; disc very narrow, ascending, or absent; valves 3 or 4, strongly exserted.
Habitat
Grows on seasonally flooded, heavy grey and brown soil, such as margins of swamps, lagoons and watercourses, in open woodland.
Distribution
Occurs over most of the arid and semi-arid areas of mainland Australia N of 33℃S latitude.
Classification
| Class: | Magnoliopsida | | Order: | Myrtales | | Family: | Myrtaceae | | Genus: | Eucalyptus | | Species: | microtheca | | Common Name: | Coolabah |
Relatives in same Genus
Eucalyptus acaciiformis
Eucalyptus accedens
Eucalyptus acies
Eucalyptus albens
Eucalyptus bancroftii
Eucalyptus baxteri
Eucalyptus caleyi
Eucalyptus camaldulensis
Eucalyptus camphora
Eucalyptus cloeziana
Eucalyptus crebra
Eucalyptus crenulata
Eucalyptus curtisii
Eucalyptus dealbata
Eucalyptus dumosa
Eucalyptus eugenioides
Eucalyptus forrestiana
Eucalyptus goniocalyx
Eucalyptus grandis
Eucalyptus intertexta
Eucalyptus largiflorens
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