Eucalyptus ligustrina, commonly known as the privet-leaved stringybark,[2] is a species of shrub, mallee or small tree that is endemic to New South Wales. It has rough, stringy bark, lance-shaped to egg-shaped adult leaves, flower buds in groups of between seven and fifteen, white flowers and hemispherical or shortened spherical fruit.
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Description
Eucalyptus ligustrina is a small tree, often a mallee or a shrub, that sometimes grows to 20 m (66 ft) but usually to less than 10 m (33 ft), and forms a lignotuber. The bark is rough, greyish brown and stringy on the trunk and larger branches, smooth on branches thinner than 20–30 mm (0.79–1.18 in). Young plants and coppice regrowth have egg-shaped leaves 10–38 mm (0.39–1.50 in) long and 7–22 mm (0.28–0.87 in) wide with a very short petiole. Adult leaves are the same, or a slightly different, shade of glossy green on both sides, lance-shaped to curved or egg-shaped, 30–100 mm (1.2–3.9 in) long and 5–20 mm (0.20–0.79 in) wide tapering to a petiole 4–10 mm (0.16–0.39 in) long. The flower buds are arranged in groups of between seven and fifteen in leaf axils, on a peduncle 4–6 mm (0.16–0.24 in) long, the individual buds sessile. Mature buds are oval to club-shaped or spindle-shaped, 3–5 mm (0.12–0.20 in) long and 2–3 mm (0.079–0.118 in) wide with a conical to rounded operculum. Flowering has been recorded from April to May and from September to October and the flowers are white. The fruit is a woody, hemispherical or shortened spherical capsule 3–6 mm (0.12–0.24 in) long and 5–10 mm (0.20–0.39 in) wide with the valves below rim level.[2][3][4][5]
Taxonomy and naming
Eucalyptus ligustrina was first formally described in 1828 by the Swiss botanist Augustin Pyramus de Candolle in Prodromus Systematis Naturalis Regni Vegetabilis.[6][7] The specific epithet (ligustrina) is a reference to the similarity of the leaves to those of plants in the genus Ligustrum.[2]
^ abc"Eucalyptus ligustrina". Euclid: Centre for Australian National Biodiversity Research. Retrieved 1 June 2020.
^Chippendale, George M. "Eucalyptus ligustrina". Australian Biological Resources Study, Department of the Environment and Energy, Canberra. Retrieved 15 September 2019.
