Eucalyptus brookeriana

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Etymology:   

• The name Eucalyptus is from the Ancient Greek words eu meaning 'good'and kalypto meaning '(I) cover, conceal, hide', referring to the operculum covering the flower buds

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Common name:                Brooker's Gum 

Conservation status:  Not threatened

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• Conservation status

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• Near Threatened (IUCN 3.1)[1]

• Scientific classificationEdit this classification

• Kingdom: Plantae

• Clade: Tracheophytes

• Clade: Angiosperms

• Clade: Eudicots

• Clade: Rosids

• Order: Myrtales

• Family: Myrtaceae

• Genus: Eucalyptus

• Species: E. brookeriana

• Binomial name

• Eucalyptus brookeriana

• A.M.Gray[2]

• Eucalyptus brookeriana, commonly known as Brooker's gum, is a tree species that is endemic to south-eastern Australia

• It has rough, fibrous bark on the lower part of its trunk, smooth bark higher up, lance-shaped, egg-shaped or curved adult leaves, flower buds usually arranged in groups of seven, white flowers and cup-shaped, conical or bell-shaped fruit

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• Description

• Eucalyptus brookeriana is a tree that typically grows to a height of 40 m and forms a lignotuber

• It has rough, fibrous, brown or grey bark at the base of the trunk and for up to 6 m, smooth white, cream-coloured, greenish or coppery bark higher up, and often hanging in ribbons when shed

• Young plants and coppice regrowth have egg-shaped, elliptic, oblong or more or less round leaves 30–115 mm long, 20–50 mm wide, different shades of green on either side, and always have a petiole

• Adult leaves are glossy green, lance-shaped to egg-shaped or curved, 65–160 mm long, 13–55 mm wide on a petiole 10–33 mm long

• The flower buds are arranged in groups of seven, sometimes nine, on a peduncle 4–15 mm long, the individual buds on a pedicel 2–5 mm long

• Mature buds are oval to diamond-shaped, 6–10 mm long and 3–6 mm wide with a conical to beaked operculum 3–5 mm long

• Flowering occurs in summer and autumn and the flowers are white

• The fruit is a woody cup-shaped, conical or bell-shaped capsule, 4–8 mm long and 5–7 mm wide with the valves at rim level or slightly above

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• Taxonomy and naming

  • Eucalyptus brookeriana was first formally described in 1979 by Alan Maurice Gray from a specimen collected near Little Swanport in Tasmania and the description was published in the journal Australian Forest Research

  • The specific epithet (brookeriana) honours M.I.H. Brooker "who specialized in the taxonomy of the genus Eucalyptus

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• Distribution and habitat

• Brooker's gum has a disjunct distribution in Tasmania and Victoria. In Victoria it grows on the northern foothills of the Otway Ranges and in the Daylesford-Trentham area

• It is widely distributed in Tasmania except in the south-west and occurs on King Island where it is the most abundant eucalypt

• It grows on slopes and ridge tops but also near watercourses in wet forest and sometimes in or near rainforest

Sources of information:

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eucalyptus_brookeriana (2023)