Citation: Maiden & Blakely in Maiden, Crit. Rev. Eucalyptus 71:49 (1929).

Synonymy: E. ochrophylla Maiden & Blakely in Maiden, Crit. Rev. Eucalyptus 71:50 (1929).

Common name: Victoria Desert mallee.

Description:
Multi- or single-stemmed trees to 9 m high; bark smooth, brown-grey, shedding in strips to reveal a paler grey layer, with rough bark towards the base; cotyledons notched or reniform; juvenile leaves opposite to alternate, petiolate, narrowly oblong-elliptic to lanceolate; adult leaves alternate, on petioles 10-15 mm long, narrow-lanceolate to lanceolate, glossy, green, pale-yellowish-green when dry, 6-12 x 1-2 cm.

Flowers in umbels of up to 7 in the axils of the leaves; buds on pedicels 4-6 mm long, obovoid or oblong-obovoid, 7-10 x 4-6 mm; operculum hemispherical or compressed, ridged, conspicuously broader but shorter than the hypanthium; flowers white; anthers all fertile, obovate.

Fruits hemispherical to pear-shaped, faintly angular to fibbed, with flat or convex incurved disk, 6-10 x 6-10 mm; valves with fragile needle-like points, exserted; seeds grey-brown, ellipsoid or lunate-ellipsoid, wrinkled.

Published illustration: Chippendale (1973) Eucalypts of Western Australian goldfields, pp. 164, 165.

Distribution:  S.Aust.: NW, NU, GT, EP.   W.Aust. Sand dunes. Conservation status: native Flowering time: probably at all times of the year.

SA Distribution Map based on current data relating to specimens held in the State Herbarium of South Australia

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