Eucalyptus planipes

Eucalyptus planipes
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
Clade:	Tracheophytes
Clade:	Angiosperms
Clade:	Eudicots
Clade:	Rosids
Order:	Myrtales
Family:	Myrtaceae
Genus:	Eucalyptus
Species:	E. planipes
Binomial name
Eucalyptus planipes L.A.S.Johnson & K.D.Hill[1]

Eucalyptus planipes is a species of mallee that is endemic to Western Australia. It has smooth bark, lance-shaped adult leaves, flower buds in groups of three and conical fruit.

Description

Eucalyptus planipes is a mallee that typically grows to a height of 3–8 m (9.8–26.2 ft) and has smooth white or pale grey bark. Young plants have greyish green, broadly lance-shaped leaves that are up to 70 mm (2.8 in) long and 25 mm (0.98 in) wide. Adult leaves are glossy bright green, lance-shaped or curved, 50–140 mm (2.0–5.5 in) long and 8–30 mm (0.31–1.18 in) wide on a more or less flattened petiole 9–25 mm (0.35–0.98 in) long. The flower buds are arranged in leaf axils in groups of three, on a flattened peduncle 8–16 mm (0.31–0.63 in) long, the individual buds on strongly flattened pedicels 2–12 mm (0.079–0.472 in) long. Mature buds are pear-shaped to club-shaped, 11–16 mm (0.43–0.63 in) long and 9–13 mm (0.35–0.51 in) wide with a conical to limpet-shaped, ribbed operculum less than half as long as the floral cup. The fruit is a woody, conical, ribbed capsule 8–15 mm (0.31–0.59 in) long and 8–14 mm (0.31–0.55 in) wide with the valves near rim level.^[2][3]

Taxonomy

Eucalyptus planipes was first formally described in 2001 by Lawrie Johnson and Ken Hill in the journal Telopea from material collected near Coolgardie in 1983.^[3][4] The specific epithet (planipes) means "flat foot", referring to the pedicels.^[5]

Distribution and habitat

This mallee is found on low rises, sandplains and the open woodlands in an area to the south and west of Kalgoorlie, from Norseman to the west of Coolgardie, where it grows in shallow calcareous loam soils over dolerite.^[2][3]

Conservation status

This eucalypt is classified as "not threatened" by the Western Australian Government Department of Parks and Wildlife.^[2]

See also

• List of Eucalyptus species

References

1. "Eucalyptus planipes". Australian Plant Census. Retrieved 2 December 2019.
2. "Eucalyptus planipes". FloraBase. Western Australian Government Department of Biodiversity, Conservation and Attractions.
3. Johnson, Lawrence A.S.; Hill, Kenneth D. (2001). "Systematic studies in the eucalypts. 11 - New taxa and combination in eucalyptus Section Dumaria (Myrtaceae)". Telopea. 9 (2): 281–285.
4. "Eucalyptus planipes". APNI. Retrieved 26 November 2019.
5. Francis Aubie Sharr (2019). Western Australian Plant Names and their Meanings. Kardinya, Western Australia: Four Gables Press. p. 278. ISBN 9780958034180.