Eucalyptus L'Her.
- Dataset
- Eucalyptus cryptica (Myrtaceae): a critically endangered new species
- Rank
- GENUS
Classification
- kingdom
- Plantae
- phylum
- Tracheophyta
- class
- Magnoliopsida
- order
- Myrtales
- family
- Myrtaceae
- genus
- Eucalyptus
discussion
, originally written by Ken Hill, is here amended to incorporate E. cryptica T. C. Wilson, S. Rutherf. & S. M. Douglas. Eucalyptus cryptica keys out with other New South Wales members of E. subgenus Symphyomyrtus section Latoangulatae series Annulares on the basis of the following characters: (i) bark rough, persistent over entire trunk, (ii) not an ironbark, and (iii) not a stringybark. However, it is then separated from its closest congeners (E. notabilis, E. resinifera and E. scias) by the valves of its fruit being shallowly enclosed to weakly exserted with the rim of the disc (v. strongly exserted). It, like E. microcorys F. Muell. and the more closely related E. botryoides and E. robusta Sm. (both currently in E. subgenus Symphyomyrtus section Latoangulatae), is distinguished from other Eucalyptus species by the adult leaves being strongly discolourous and closely penniveined. It can then be distinguished from E. botryoides by its fruit being pedicellate (v. fruit sessile). Below are modifications to the key that distinguish E. cryptica from E. microcorys and E. robusta.
Name
- Homonyms
- Eucalyptus L'Her.
- Eucalyptus