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Eucalyptus viminalis

Labill. (1806)

This name is accepted

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

manna gum

Description

Key Characters:

Growth Form: Trees 30–50 m tall.

Stems: Bark white or yellowish white, smooth throughout, often with accumulated shedding bark at base of trunk or rough–fibrous on part or all trunk and often also on larger branches.

Roots:

Leaves: Leaves simple. Adult Alternate. Blades lanceolate to narrowly lanceolate, 12–20 cm long, 0.8–2.5 cm wide. Apex attenuate. Blades concolorous. Margins entire. Petioles 10–25 mm long. Stipules vestigial or absent.

Flowers: Flowers 3–7 in axillary, simple umbels, peduncles 4–13 mm long, pedicels absent. buds ovoid, 5–8 mm long, 3–5 mm wide. Flowers bisexual (perfect), actinomorphic. Calyx modified into an operculum; operculum conical or hemispherical–apiculate. Stamens numerous, in several whorls; anthers dithecal. Ovary inferior; ovule placentation axile.

Fruit: Fruit hemispherical to subglobose; 4–8 mm long; 5–9 mm wide; valves 3–4; exserted. Seeds numerous.

Ploidy: 2n = 22

Habitat: Extensively planted on O'ahu and Hawai'i; and regenerating from seed within the plantations.

Elevation Range:

Historical Distribution

Accepted Subtaxa (in Hawai'i) (1)

Eucalyptus viminalis subsp. viminalis

Uses and Culture

USES

Natural History

Statewide Status

Naturalized

Island Status

O'ahu Naturalized
Lana'i Potentially Naturalizing
Hawai'i Naturalized

Dispersal Agents


Pollinators

Specimens

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Bibliography

Name Published In: Nov. Holl. Pl. 2: 12 (1806)

Occurrences

SNo. Scientific Name Scientific Name Authorship Locality Habitat Basis of Record Recorded By Record Number Island Source Date
1 Eucalyptus viminalis Labill. Pu`u La`au, forestry planting between hunter's cabin and state sheep enclosure. PRESERVED_SPECIMEN Herbst, D. R.; Ishikawa, S. 5176 Hawaii US 1/17/1975
2 Eucalyptus viminalis Labill. Munro Trail, south side, headwaters of Kapoho PRESERVED_SPECIMEN Oppenheimer, H.L.; Padgett, M. H91645 Lanai BISH 9/28/2016
3 Eucalyptus viminalis Labill. waimea village Big Trees in open with big spreading tops. PRESERVED_SPECIMEN anon. collector number: 61 Hawaii BISH 2/1/1932
4 Eucalyptus viminalis Labill. Waimea Village Big Trees in open with big spreading tops. PRESERVED_SPECIMEN Anon. 61 Hawaii BISH 2/1/1932
5 Eucalyptus viminalis Labill. Puu Laau Forestry planting between hunter's cabin and state sheep enclosure. PRESERVED_SPECIMEN Herbst, D.R. 5176 Hawaii BISH 1/17/1975
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