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Eucalyptus cornuta

Labill. (1800)

This name is accepted

Kingdom: Viridiplantae Phylum: Magnoliophyta Class/Clade: Eudicot-Rosids Order: Myrtales Family: Myrtaceae Genus: Eucalyptus

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Description

Key Characters:

Growth Form: Trees 10–25 m tall.

Stems: Sometimes mallees or shrubs ca. 10 m tall, bark dark gray or black, rough, hard, furrowed on trunk and larger branches, smaller branches gray to grayish brown, smooth.

Roots:

Leaves: Leaves simple. Adult Alternate. Blades lanceolate to broadly lanceolate, 8–14 cm long, 1–2.7 cm wide. Apex acuminate. Blades concolorous. Margins entire. Petioles 5–15 mm long. Stipules vestigial or absent.

Flowers: Flowers 11–15 in axillary, simple umbels, peduncles flattened, 17–30 mm long, pedicels absent. buds horn–shaped or narrowly cylindrical, 21–38 mm long, 5–10 mm wide. Flowers bisexual (perfect), actinomorphic. Calyx modified into an operculum; operculum horn-shaped. Stamens numerous, in several whorls; anthers dithecal. Ovary inferior; ovule placentation axile.

Fruit: Fruit hemispherical or campanulate; crowded; 7–14 mm long; 6–13 mm wide; valves 3; exserted. Seeds numerous.

Ploidy: 2n = 22

Habitat: Planted and occurring sporadically on the island of Hawai'i.

Elevation Range:

Historical Distribution

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Uses and Culture

USES

  • Yes

Natural History

Statewide Status

Only found in cultivation

Island Status

O'ahu Only found in cultivation
Molokai Only found in cultivation
Lana'i Only found in cultivation
Hawai'i Only found in cultivation

Dispersal Agents

Forestry

Pollinators

Bibliography

Name Published In: Voy. Rech. Pérouse 1: 457 (1800)

Other References

Wagner et al. 1990:952 (H); Staples & Herbst 2005:420 (KEY), 423 (DESCR); Note: excluded from checklist, no nat. spms., Apr 2025

Occurrences

SNo. Scientific Name Locality Habitat Basis of Record Description Recorded By Record Number Island Source Date
1 Eucalyptus cornuta Koele Preserved_Specimen Munro, G.C. 536 Lanai BISH 1916-03-01
2 Eucalyptus cornuta Koele Preserved_Specimen Munro, G.C. 536 Lanai BISH 1916-03-01
3 Eucalyptus cornuta Waimea, roadside windbreak, el. 3000 ft Preserved_Specimen lower part sub-fibrous, hard persistant. Upper part peeling in flakes. Flower- greenish yellow Ewart III, G.R. 155 Hawaii BISH 1932-01-12
4 Eucalyptus cornuta Tantalus, Oahu Preserved_Specimen 6047 Oahu BISH 1909-11-01
5 Eucalyptus cornuta Koele Preserved_Specimen Munro, G.C. 64 Lanai BISH 1926-02-01
6 Eucalyptus cornuta Koele Preserved_Specimen Munro, G.C. 169 Lanai BISH 1927-05-04
7 Eucalyptus cornuta Waialua, Hawaii Preserved_Specimen Russ, G.W. Hawaii BISH 1928-01-01
8 Eucalyptus cornuta Kualapuu, Molokai Preserved_Specimen Bark dark and hard looking, good appearing tree. Munro, G.C. 111 Molokai BISH 1927-06-27
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