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Eucalyptus

L'Hér. (1789)

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 or shrubs.

Stems: Bark smooth or rough.

Roots:

Leaves: Leaves simple, heterophyllous (having two or more types of leaves). Alternate or occasionally opposite. Surfaces green or glaucous. Petiolate or occasionally sessile. Stipules vestigial or absent.

Flowers: Flowers 3 or more in umbels, rarely solitary, sessile or pedicellate, in condensed dichasia or umbelliform inflorescences, usually pedunculate, borne singly, paired in several taxa, or in terminal or axillary racemes, or occasionally in terminal corymbose panicles. Flowers bisexual (perfect), actinomorphic. Calyx and corolla fused to form an opercula, deciduous separately or together, seated on hypanthium. Stamens numerous, in several whorls; anthers dithecal. Ovary inferior or partly superior, 2–7-celled.

Fruit: Capsules enclosed by the woody hypanthium; loculicidally dehiscent at top; rarely circumscissile; with scars. indicating the operculum and filament bases; rarely longitudinally ribbed; fruiting disk ascending; convex; flat; or descending; fruiting valves exserted; flat or included. Seeds numerous; variable in color and shape.

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Historical Distribution

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Accepted Subtaxa (in Hawai'i) (96)

Eucalyptus agglomerata Maiden
Eucalyptus alba Reinw. ex Blume
Eucalyptus albens Benth.
Eucalyptus amplifolia Naudin
Eucalyptus amygdalina Labill.
Eucalyptus bancroftii (Maiden) Maiden
Eucalyptus barberi L.A.S.Johnson & Blaxell
Eucalyptus beyeri R.T.Baker
Eucalyptus bigalerita F.Muell.
Eucalyptus botryoides Sm.
Eucalyptus bridgesiana R.T.Baker
Eucalyptus caesia Benth.
Eucalyptus caleyi Maiden
Eucalyptus camaldulensis Dehnh.
Eucalyptus camaldulensis × Eucalyptus sideroxylon
Eucalyptus canaliculata Maiden
Eucalyptus capitellata Sm.
Eucalyptus cinerea F.Muell. ex Benth.
Eucalyptus cladocalyx F.Muell.
Eucalyptus cloeziana F.Muell.
Eucalyptus coolabah Blakely & Jacobs
Eucalyptus cornuta Labill.
Eucalyptus crebra F.Muell.
Eucalyptus cupularis C.A.Gardner
Eucalyptus cypellocarpa L.A.S.Johnson
Eucalyptus dealbata A.Cunn. ex S.Schauer
Eucalyptus deanei Maiden
Eucalyptus decorticans (F.M.Bailey) Maiden
Eucalyptus deglupta Blume
Eucalyptus diversicolor F.Muell.
Eucalyptus drepanophylla F.Muell. ex Benth.
Eucalyptus dunnii Maiden
Eucalyptus erythrocorys F.Muell.
Eucalyptus eugenioides Sieber ex Spreng.
Eucalyptus exserta F.Muell.
Eucalyptus fibrosa F.Muell.
Eucalyptus gardneri Maiden
Eucalyptus globulus Labill.
Eucalyptus gomphocephala DC.
Eucalyptus goniocalyx F.Muell. ex Miq.
Eucalyptus grandis W.Hill ex Maiden
Eucalyptus kruseana F.Muell.
Eucalyptus lehmannii (Schauer) Benth.
Eucalyptus leucoxylon F.Muell.
Eucalyptus longifolia Link
Eucalyptus macrocarpa Hook.
Eucalyptus maidenii F.Muell.
Eucalyptus malacoxylon Blakely
Eucalyptus marginata Donn ex Sm.
Eucalyptus melanophloia F.Muell.
Eucalyptus melliodora A.Cunn. ex S.Schauer
Eucalyptus microcarpa (Maiden) Maiden
Eucalyptus microcorys F.Muell.
Eucalyptus microtheca F.Muell.
Eucalyptus moluccana Roxb.
Eucalyptus nitens (H.Deane & Maiden) Maiden
Eucalyptus obliqua L'Hér.
Eucalyptus oblonga A.Cunn. ex DC.
Eucalyptus ovata Labill.
Eucalyptus paniculata Sm.
Eucalyptus pellita F.Muell.
Eucalyptus pilularis Sm.
Eucalyptus piperita J.White
Eucalyptus platypus Hook.
Eucalyptus polyanthemos S.Schauer
Eucalyptus propinqua H.Deane & Maiden
Eucalyptus pulchella Desf.
Eucalyptus pulverulenta Sims
Eucalyptus punctata DC.
Eucalyptus quadrangulata H.Deane & Maiden
Eucalyptus racemosa Cav.
Eucalyptus raveretiana F.Muell.
Eucalyptus redunca S.Schauer
Eucalyptus resinifera Sm.
Eucalyptus robusta Sm.
Eucalyptus rubida H.Deane & Maiden
Eucalyptus rudis Endl.
Eucalyptus saligna Sm.
Eucalyptus salubris F.Muell.
Eucalyptus shirleyi Maiden
Eucalyptus siderophloia Benth.
Eucalyptus sideroxylon A.Cunn. ex Woolls
Eucalyptus sieberi L.A.S.Johnson
Eucalyptus smithii R.T.Baker
Eucalyptus stoatei C.A.Gardner
Eucalyptus tereticornis Sm.
Eucalyptus tetrapleura L.A.S.Johnson
Eucalyptus thozetiana F.Muell. ex R.T.Baker
Eucalyptus torquata Luehm.
Eucalyptus umbra R.T.Baker
Eucalyptus urophylla S.T.Blake
Eucalyptus viminalis Labill.
Eucalyptus viridis R.T.Baker
Eucalyptus wandoo Blakely
Eucalyptus yarraensis Maiden & Cambage
Eucalyptus × studleyensis Maiden

Uses and Culture

USES

Natural History

Island Status

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Bibliography

Name Published In: Sert. Angl.: 18 (1789)

Occurrences

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