Eucalyptus frenchiana

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Eucalyptus frenchiana - Wikipedia

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Eucalyptus frenchiana
Conservation status
Priority Three — Poorly Known Taxa (DEC)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
Clade:	Tracheophytes
Clade:	Angiosperms
Clade:	Eudicots
Clade:	Rosids
Order:	Myrtales
Family:	Myrtaceae
Genus:	Eucalyptus
Species:	E. frenchiana
Binomial name
*Eucalyptus frenchiana* D.Nicolle^[1]

Eucalyptus frenchiana is a species of mallet that is endemic to Western Australia. It has smooth bark, narrow lance-shaped, glossy green adult leaves, ribbed flower buds in groups of three, white flowers and ribbed, conical to cup-shaped fruit.

Description

Eucalyptus frenchiana is a mallet that typically grows to a height of 6–14 m (20–46 ft) but does not form a lignotuber. It has smooth light grey over cream bark that is shed in ribbons. Young plants and coppice regrowth have slightly glossy light green leaves that are a paler colour on one side, egg-shaped and petiolate. Adult leaves are narrow lance-shaped, the same glossy green on both sides, 55–100 mm (2.2–3.9 in) long and 9–13 mm (0.35–0.51 in) wide and petiolate. The flower buds are arranged in leaf axils in groups of three on a peduncle 8–13 mm (0.31–0.51 in) long, the individual buds on pedicels 5–11 mm (0.20–0.43 in) long. Mature buds are 12–15 mm (0.47–0.59 in) long and 8–12 mm (0.31–0.47 in) wide, the hypanthium cup-shaped and the operculum hemispherical with prominent longitudinal ribs. The flowers are white and the fruit is a woody, conical to cup-shaped capsule 10–12 mm (0.39–0.47 in) long and 10–13 mm (0.39–0.51 in) wide with the valves near to rim level.^[2]^[3]

Taxonomy and naming

Eucalyptus frenchiana was first formally described in 2009 by Dean Nicolle from a specimen he collected with Malcolm French west of Coolgardie, and the description was published in the journal Nuytsia.^[2]^[4] The specific epithet (frenchiana) honours French for his assistance in the preparation of the Nuytsia paper.^[2]

Distribution and habitat

This mallet grows in mallet-mallee woodland near Lake Johnston in the Coolgardie biogeographic region.^[5]

Conservation status

Eucalyptus frenchiana is classified as "Priority Three" by the Government of Western Australia Department of Parks and Wildlife^[5] meaning that it is poorly known and known from only a few locations but is not under imminent threat.^[6]

References

^ "Eucalyptus frenchiana". Australian Plant Census. Retrieved 8 July 2019.
^ ^a ^b ^c Nicolle, Dean (2009). "Four new obligate seeder taxa of Eucalyptus series Rufispermae (Myrtaceae) from the transitional rainfall zone of south-western Australia" (PDF). Nuytsia. 1: 92–95. Retrieved 8 July 2019.
^ "Eucalyptus frenchiana". Euclid: Centre for Australian National Biodiversity Research. Retrieved 2 June 2020.
^ "Eucalyptus frenchiana". APNI. Retrieved 8 July 2019.
^ ^a ^b "Eucalyptus frenchiana". FloraBase. Western Australian Government Department of Biodiversity, Conservation and Attractions.
^ "Conservation codes for Western Australian Flora and Fauna" (PDF). Government of Western Australia Department of Parks and Wildlife. Retrieved 8 July 2019.

Taxon identifiers
Eucalyptus frenchiana	Wikidata: Q28813553 APNI: 222263 CoL: 3BPYD FloraBase: 34756 FoAO2: Eucalyptus frenchiana GBIF: 8133351 iNaturalist: 1071942 IPNI: 77099920-1 IUCN: 133375278 NCBI: 1711309 Open Tree of Life: 6121982 Plant List: kew-457540 POWO: urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:77099920-1 WFO: wfo-0000912619

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