Eucalyptus carnei, also known as the Carne's blackbutt,[2] is a species of tree or mallee that is endemic to an area in central Western Australia. It has smooth grey bark, lance-shaped adult leaves, flower buds in groups of seven, creamy white flowers, and cup-shaped to conical fruit.
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Description
Eucalyptus carnei is a tree or mallee that typically grows to a height of 2.5 to 10 metres (8 to 33 ft) and forms a lignotuber. It has smooth, mostly grey bark, sometimes with up to 0.5 m (1 ft 8 in) of crumbly or flaky bark near the base of the trunk. Young plants and coppice regrowth have dull greyish, lance-shaped leaves 80–110 mm (3.1–4.3 in) long and 17–30 mm (0.67–1.18 in) wide. Adult leaves are dull grey-green on both sides, lance-shaped, 83–145 mm (3.3–5.7 in) long and 15–30 mm (0.59–1.18 in) wide on a petiole 13–23 mm (0.51–0.91 in) long. The flower buds are arranged in groups of seven in leaf axils on a glaucous, unbranched peduncle 7–20 mm (0.28–0.79 in) long, the individual buds sessile or on a very short pedicel. Mature buds are not glaucous, but oval to spindle-shaped, 9–13 mm (0.35–0.51 in) long and 5–6 mm (0.20–0.24 in) wide with a conical operculum. The flowers are creamy white and appear between February and May. The fruit is a woody, cup-shaped or conical capsule 5–10 mm (0.20–0.39 in) long and 6–9 mm (0.24–0.35 in) wide with the valves either level with the rim or extending well beyond it.[2][3][4]
This species is also a part of the Eucalyptus subgenus Symphyomyrtus section Bisectae subsection Glandulosae because the cotyledons are bisected, the buds have a scar on the operculum and the branchlets have oil glands in the pith. Eucalyptus carnei is closely related to only one other species, E. stricklandii, and the two form the series Stricklandianae.[3]
^Chippendale, George M. "Eucalyptus carnei". Australian Biological Resources Study, Department of the Environment and Energy, Canberra. Retrieved 17 April 2019.
