Citation: Blakely, Trans. R. Soc. S. Aust. 60:155 (1936).

Synonymy: Not Applicable

Common name: Sharp-capped mallee, blue mallee.

Description:
Multi-stemmed or occasionally single-stemmed trees to 7 m high; young twigs glaucous; bark smooth, grey to cream, shedding in strips, rough only at the base; cotyledons deeply 2-fid; juvenile leaves opposite to alternate, petiolate, narrowly oblong-lanceolate to ovate; adult leaves alternate, on petioles 10-20 mm long, ovate or rarely to linear-lanceolate, sometimes uncinate, thickish, dull, pale, bluish-green, 5-8 or rarely to 14 cm long, 2-4.5 cm broad, veins faint.

Flowers in umbels of up to 7 in the axils of the leaves; buds on pedicels 0-5 mm long, glaucous, globose- or ovoid-conical, 7-9 x 10-13 mm; operculum long-rostrate, much longer than the hypanthium; flowers white-cream; anthers all fertile, subglobose but wider than long.

Fruits hemispherical or subglobose, with a broad ascending disk, sometimes slightly fibbed, 9-20 x 9-16 mm; valves 3-5, exserted, broad-triangular, with fragile needle-like points; seeds irregularly lunate, strongly reticulate, with an often wing-like margin, grey-brown.

Distribution:  S.Aust.: NW.   W.Aust.; N.T. Sand. Conservation status: native Flowering time: recorded Sept. but said by Boomsma (1981) to be often in winter

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

Biology: No text

Author: Not yet available