Eucalyptus scias (Eucalyptus scias)
Description
Tree or mallee (rarely) to 20 m high; bark persistent, dark red-brown, stringy. Juvenile leaves disjunct, broad-lanceolate to ovate, glossy dark green. Adult leaves disjunct, lanceolate or broad-lanceolate, 7–16 cm long, 1.3–3.2 cm wide, dark green, glossy, discolorous, penniveined. Umbellasters 3–7-flowered (usually 7); peduncle broadly flattened (to 9 mm wide), 5–23 mm long; pedicels angular, 0–9 mm long. Buds ovoid or fusiform, 14–23 mm long, 9–14 mm diam., scar present; calyptra conical or hemispherical, sometimes beaked, at least as long and as wide as hypanthium, ± wrinkled. Fruit conical or hemispherical, 3–6-locular, ± ribbed, 8–16 mm long, 9–20 mm diam.; disc flat or slightly raised, 2–3 mm wide; valves exserted, raised at 60–80 degrees.
Taxonomic tree
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Domain: Eukarya
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Kingdom: Plantae
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Phylum:
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Class: Magnoliopsida
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Order: Myrtales
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Family: Myrtaceae
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Genus: Eucalyptus
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