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  1. Family: Myrtaceae Juss.

    1. Eucalyptus L'Hér.

        2. This genus is accepted, and its native range is Philippines to Australia.

    [FZ]

    Myrtaceae, F. White. Flora Zambesiaca 4. 1978

    Habit
    Evergreen trees and shrubs.
    Leaves
    Juvenile leaves mostly horizontal, opposite, cordate and sessile. Adult leaves sclerophyllous, mostly vertical, 2-facial, alternate, petiolate, usually elongate and narrowly lanceolate.
    Inflorescences
    Inflorescence fundamentally a dichasial cyme showing various degrees of expansion, aggregation or compaction. The unit inflorescence or “umbel” is in fact a condensed and usually partly reduced dichasium.
    Receptacle
    Receptacle-tube obconical, campanulate or oblong, adnate to the ovary, truncate and entire after the operculum has fallen or with 4 minute teeth.
    Perianth
    Perianth variously modified (see below) to form an operculum which falls off entire when the filaments expand.
    Stamens
    Stamens numerous in several series, free or very rarely very shortly fused at the base into 4 clusters.
    Pistil
    Ovary inferior, 3–6-locular; placentation axile; ovules numerous in each locule; style subulate, rarely clavate, with a small truncate, capitate or rarely peltate stigma.
    Fruits
    Fruit usually hard and woody, consisting of the more-or-less enlarged truncate receptacle-tube enclosing the capsule, which is always adnate to the receptacle-tube although often readily separable from it, opening by as many valves as there are locules.
    [FTEA]

    Myrtaceae, B. Verdcourt, B.Sc., Ph.D.. Flora of Tropical East Africa. 2001

    Habit
    Trees or shrubs with smooth to very rough bark of various types
    Leaves
    Leaves usually markedly different in juvenile, intermediate and adult phases, the juveniles often opposite, cordate and sessile but adults mostly alternate, usually petiolate, falcate and pendulous
    Inflorescences
    Flower usually in umbel-like condensed usually pedunculate dichasial cymes, either single or more rarely paired in the leaf-axils or in terminal corymbose panicles; flowers 3 or more per umbel or in a few species solitary, sessile or pedicellate
    Calyx
    Calyx-limb and corolla each or together forming an operculum which is shed at anthesis but calyx-lobes sometimes free, falling separately or together
    Stamens
    Stamens numerous; anthers dehiscing by pores or slits; connective mostly with a dorsal or terminal gland
    Ovary
    Ovary 2–7-locular, inferior or partly superior; ovules numerous
    Fruits
    Capsule usually woody, loculicidal or rarely circumscissile with scars left by falling operculum and androecium; disc convex or descending; valves included to exserted.

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    Distribution

    Native to:

    Bismarck Archipelago, Lesser Sunda Is., Maluku, New Guinea, New South Wales, Northern Territory, Philippines, Queensland, South Australia, Sulawesi, Tasmania, Victoria, Western Australia

    Introduced into:

    Albania, Algeria, Andaman Is., Argentina Northeast, Argentina Northwest, Ascension, Azores, Baleares, Bangladesh, Benin, Bolivia, California, Cambodia, Canary Is., Cape Provinces, Chad, China South-Central, China Southeast, Colombia, Corse, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominican Republic, East Aegean Is., Easter Is., Ecuador, El Salvador, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Florida, France, Free State, Gambia, Great Britain, Greece, Guatemala, Guinea, Hainan, Hawaii, Honduras, India, Ireland, Italy, Juan Fernández Is., Kenya, Leeward Is., Libya, Madeira, Malawi, Mexico Southeast, Mexico Southwest, Morocco, Mozambique, New Caledonia, New Zealand North, New Zealand South, Nicaragua, Nicobar Is., Norfolk Is., Pakistan, Panamá, Paraguay, Peru, Portugal, Puerto Rico, Rwanda, Sardegna, Senegal, Sicilia, Society Is., Spain, St.Helena, Taiwan, Tanzania, Transcaucasus, Trinidad-Tobago, Tunisia, Uganda, Windward Is., Zambia, Zimbabwe

    Accepted Species

    Synonyms

    Other Data

    Eucalyptus L'Hér. appears in other Kew resources:

    Date Reference Identified As Barcode Type Status
    Jun 1, 2000 Pollard, B.J. [373], Cameroon K000337916

    Bibliography

    First published in Sert. Angl.: 18 (1789)

    Accepted by

    • Govaerts, R., Sobral, N., Ashton, P., Barrie, F., Holst, B.K., Landrum, L.L., Matsumoto, K., Fernanda Mazine, F., Nic Lughadha, E., Proença, C. & al. (2008). World Checklist of Myrtaceae: 1-455. Kew Publishing, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
    • Govaerts, R. (2003). World Checklist of Selected Plant Families Database in ACCESS: 1-216203. The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.

    Literature

    Flora Zambesiaca

    • Sert. Angl.: 18 (1788).

    Flora of Tropical East Africa

    • Chippendale, Fl. Austral. 19: 1–448 (1988)
    • Sert. Angl.: 18 (1788)

    Sources

    Art and Illustrations in Digifolia
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    Flora Zambesiaca
    Flora Zambesiaca
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    Flora of Tropical East Africa
    Flora of Tropical East Africa
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    Herbarium Catalogue Specimens
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    Kew Backbone Distributions
    The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Selected Plant Families 2020. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and http://apps.kew.org/wcsp/
    © Copyright 2017 World Checklist of Selected Plant Families. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0

    Kew Names and Taxonomic Backbone
    The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Selected Plant Families 2020. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and http://apps.kew.org/wcsp/
    © Copyright 2017 International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Selected Plant Families. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0