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Eucalyptus deanei

Maiden (1904)

This name is accepted

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

Deane's gum

Description

Key Characters:

Growth Form: Trees 45–65 m tall.

Stems: Bark white to bluish gray, smooth throughout, or occasionally flaky at base of trunk.

Roots:

Leaves: Leaves simple. Adult Alternate. Blades lanceolate to broadly lanceolate, 8–12.5 cm long, 1.7–3.5 cm wide. Apex acuminate. Blades discolorous. Margins entire. Petioles 15–20 mm long. Stipules vestigial or absent.

Flowers: Flowers 7–11 in axillary, simple umbels, peduncles 7–14 mm long, pedicels 1–5 mm long. buds clavate, 4–7 mm long, 3–4 mm wide. Flowers bisexual (perfect), actinomorphic. Calyx modified into an operculum; operculum hemispherical, apiculate. Stamens numerous, in several whorls; anthers dithecal. Ovary inferior; ovules with axile placentation.

Fruit: Fruit cylindrical to campanulate; 4–6 mm long and wide; valves 3–4; exserted. Seeds numerous.

Ploidy:

Habitat: Extensively planted on Kaua'i; O'ahu; Molokai; and Hawai'i; and seeding naturally in these areas.

Elevation Range:

Historical Distribution

Uses and Culture

USES

  • Yes

Natural History

Statewide Status

Naturalized

Island Status

Kaua'i Naturalized
O'ahu Naturalized
Molokai Naturalized
Maui Only found in cultivation
Hawai'i Naturalized

Dispersal Agents

Forestry

Pollinators

Bibliography

Name Published In: Proc. Linn. Soc. New South Wales 29: 471 (1904)

Other References

Wagner et al. 1990:953 (K, O, Mo, H)

Occurrences

SNo. Scientific Name Scientific Name Authorship Locality Habitat Basis of Record Recorded By Record Number Island Source Date
1 Eucalyptus deanei Maiden Kiolokaa PRESERVED_SPECIMEN Breithaupt, O. s.n. Hawaii BISH 9/14/1944
2 Eucalyptus deanei Maiden Honualoa Forest Reserve PRESERVED_SPECIMEN Adee, K.T. s.n. Hawaii BISH
3 Eucalyptus deanei Maiden honualoa forest reserve PRESERVED_SPECIMEN adee, k.t. collector number: s.n. Hawaii BISH
4 Eucalyptus deanei Maiden kiolokaa Under canopy of tall Metrosideros, Eugenia & Pisonia; on a steeper, drier slope. PRESERVED_SPECIMEN breithaupt, o. collector number: s.n. Oahu BISH 9/14/1944
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