Corymbia rhodops

Corymbia rhodops is a tree that typically grows to a height of {{convert|15|m|ft|0}} and forms a lignotuber. It has red-brown to grey-brown tessellated bark on the trunk and larger branches. Branches thinner than about {{cvt|20-50|mm}} are smooth-barked. Young plants and coppice regrowth have leaves that are glossy green above, paler below, elliptical to lance-shaped, {{cvt|55-120|mm}} long and {{cvt|15-30|mm}} wide. Adult leaves are arranged alternately, glossy green but paler on the lower surface, lance-shaped, {{cvt|80-152|mm}} long and {{cvt|8-25|mm}} wide, tapering to a petiole {{cvt|8-25|mm}} long. The flowers are borne on the ends of branchlets on a branched peduncle {{cvt|4-25|mm}} long, each branch of the peduncle with seven buds on pedicels {{cvt|10-20|mm}} long. Mature buds are pear-shaped to oval, {{cvt|8-15|mm}} long and {{cvt|4-7|mm}} wide with a conical to rounded operculum with a small point in the centre. Flowering occurs from December to February and the flowers have creamy white stamens with a red centre. The fruit is a woody urn-shaped to barrel-shaped capsule {{cvt|17-28|mm}} long and {{cvt|12-20|mm}} wide with the valves enclosed in the fruit.{{cite web |title=Corymbia rhodops |url=https://apps.lucidcentral.org/euclid/text/entities/corymbia_rhodops.htm |publisher=Euclis: Centre for Australian National Biodiversity Research |access-date=6 June 2020}}{{cite journal |last1=Hill |first1=Kenneth D. |last2=Johnson |first2=Lawrence A.S. |title=Systematic studies in the eucalypts. 7. A revision of the bloodwoods, genus Corymbia (Myrtaceae) |journal=Telopea |date=1995 |volume=6 |issue=2–3 |pages=276–277|doi=10.7751/telopea19953017 |doi-access=free }}{{cite web|url=http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/euctax.pl?/PlantNet/Euc=&name=Corymbia+rhodops|title=Corymbia rhodops (D.J. Carr & S.G.M. Carr) K.D. Hill & L.A.S. Johnson, Telopea 6: 276 (1995)|work=Eucalink|access-date=9 October 2016|publisher=Royal Botanic Gardens, Sydney}}

The red-throated bloodwood was first formally described in 1987 by Denis John Carr and Stella Grace Maisie Carr who gave it the name Eucalyptus rhodops and published the description in their book Eucalyptus II - The rubber cuticle, and other studies of the Corymbosae. They collected the type specimens near Watsonville in 1975.{{cite web|title=Eucalyptus rhodops|url= https://id.biodiversity.org.au/instance/apni/557051|publisher=APNI|access-date=25 February 2020}} In 1995, Ken Hill and Lawrie Johnson changed the name to Corymbia rhodops, publishing the change in the journal Telopea.{{cite web|title=Corymbia rhodops|url= https://id.biodiversity.org.au/instance/apni/562602|publisher=APNI|access-date=23 February 2020}}

This bloodwood is only known form a few small population on steep slopes on the western side of the Atherton Tableland and on the Windsor Tablelands.

Corymbia rhodops was listed as vulnerable under the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999 in 2008.{{cite web|author=Department of the Environment |date=2020|title= Corymbia rhodops |website= Species Profile and Threats Database|publisher= Department of the Environment|location= Canberra|url= http://www.environment.gov.au/sprat|access-date=15 Jul 2020}} The plant has a limited range but the main identified threat to the tree is the destruction of habitat due to mining activity. It is also listed as "vulnerable" under the Queensland Government Nature Conservation Act 1992.{{cite web|url=http://www.environment.gov.au/biodiversity/threatened/species/pubs/64015-conservation-advice.pdf|title=Approved Conservation Advice (s266B of the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999) Approved Conservation Advice for Corymbia rhodops|access-date=9 October 2016|year=2008|publisher=Department of the Environment}}

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rhodops

Category:Myrtales of Australia

Category:Flora of Queensland

Category:Plants described in 1987

Category:Taxa named by Maisie Carr