Eucalyptus pauciflora
Sieber ex Spreng. Snow GumTree to 30 m tall; bark smooth, usually with scribbles. Juvenile leaves sessile, opposite for few pairs then petiolate, alternate, ovate or broadly falcate, pendulous, to 16 cm long, 6 cm wide, glaucous; adult leaves petiolate, alternate, broadly lanceolate to lanceolate, to 16 cm long, 3 cm wide, concolorous, glossy, green to grey-green or olive-green; side veins more or less parallel to midrib; reticulation sparse, with numerous, island oil glands. Inflorescences axillary, unbranched; peduncles to 1.6 cm long, 11 (or more)-flowered; buds clavate, to 0.9 cm long, 0.5 cm diam., no scar (single operculum); operculum hemispherical or conical; stamens mostly inflexed; anthers dorsifixed, reniform; ovules in 2–4 vertical rows; flowers white. Fruit more or less sessile, cupular to obconical, to 1.3 cm long, 1.5 cm diam.; disc level to descending; valves 3(4), rim level; seed blackish, glossy, smooth, pyramidal but distorted by one curved face, hilum terminal.
Wim, GleP, VVP, VRiv, GipP, OtP, WaP, Gold, CVU, GGr, DunT, NIS, EGL, EGU, WPro, HSF, HNF, Strz, MonT, HFE, VAlp.
6 subspecies, all present in Victoria.
Brooker, M.I.H.; Slee, A.V. (1996). Eucalyptus. In: Walsh, N.G.; Entwisle, T.J., Flora of Victoria Vol. 3, Dicotyledons Winteraceae to Myrtaceae, pp. 946–1009. Inkata Press, Melbourne.
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