Eucalyptus chapmaniana
{{Short description|Species of eucalyptus}}
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|name = Bogong gum
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|image_caption = Eucalyptus chapmaniana in Maranoa Gardens
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|genus = Eucalyptus
|species = chapmaniana
|authority = Cameron{{cite web|title=Eucalyptus champaniana|url= https://biodiversity.org.au/nsl/services/apc-format/display/112342|publisher=Australian Plant Census|access-date=25 April 2019}}
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Eucalyptus chapmaniana, commonly known as the Bogong gum,{{cite web |last1=Brooker |first1=M. Ian |last2=Slee |first2=Andrew V. |title=Eucalyptus chapmaniana |url=https://vicflora.rbg.vic.gov.au/flora/taxon/de2415b9-a63c-42bf-83df-1353a6eef8ad |publisher=Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria |access-date=25 April 2019}} is a species of small to medium-sized tree endemic to montane and eastern Australia. It has rough, fibrous and fissured bark on most of the trunk and smooth light brown to grey bark often shed in long ribbons on the branches. The adult leaves are lance-shaped to curved, the flower buds in groups of three and the fruit a conical or bell-shaped capsule.File:Eucalyptus chapmaniana buds.jpgFile:Eucalyptus chapmaniana fruit.jpg
Description
Eucalyptus chapmaniana is a tree that typically grows to a height of {{cvt|30-35|m}} and forms a lignotuber. The bark on most of the trunk is rough, fibrous and finely and grey or brown-grey and on the branches is smooth, light brown to pale grey, with long ribbons of shed bark. Young plants and copice regrowth have sessile egg-shaped to almost round leaves {{cvt|20-95|mm}} long and {{cvt|18-70|mm}} wide arranged in opposite pairs. Adult leaves are arranged alternately, lance-shaped to curved, {{cvt|140-300|mm}} long and {{cvt|17-48|mm}} wide on a petiole {{cvt|13-37|mm}} long. The flower buds are arranged in groups of three in leaf axils on an unbranched peduncle {{cvt|5-9|mm}} long, the individual buds on a pedicel {{cvt|2-3|mm}} long. Mature buds are club-shaped to diamond-shaped, {{cvt|7-9|mm}} long and {{cvt|5-7|mm}} wide with a conical to beaked operculum. Flowering occurs from January to March and the flowers are white. The fruit is a woody, conical or bell-shaped capsule {{cvt|5-9|mm}} long and {{cvt|7-10|mm}} wide.{{cite web |title=Eucalyptus chapmaniana |url=https://apps.lucidcentral.org/euclid/text/entities/eucalyptus_chapmaniana.htm |publisher=Euclid: Centre for Australian National Biodiversity Research |access-date=4 June 2020}}{{cite web |last1=Hill |first1=Ken |title=Eucalyptus chapmaniana |url=http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Eucalyptus~chapmaniana |publisher=Royal Botanic GardenSydney |access-date=25 April 2019}}{{cite web |last1=Chippendale |first1=George M. |title=Eucalyptus chapmaniana |url=https://profiles.ala.org.au/opus/foa/profile/Eucalyptus%20chapmaniana |publisher=Australian Biological Resources Study, Department of the Environment and Energy, Canberra |access-date=25 April 2019}}{{cite journal |last1=Cameron |first1=Alexander K. |title=Description of a new Victorian eucalypt |journal=The Victorian Naturalist |date=1946 |volume=64 |pages=52–54 |url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/126813#page/59/mode/1up |access-date=25 April 2019}}
Taxonomy
Eucalyptus chapmaniana was first formally described in 1947 by Alexander Kenneth Cameron from a specimen near Bogong and the description was published in The Victorian Naturalist.{{cite web|title=Eucalyptus chapmaniana|url= https://id.biodiversity.org.au/instance/apni/455983 |publisher=APNI|access-date=25 April 2019}} The specific epithet (chapmanii) honours Wilfrid Chapman (1891–1955), after he had drawn attention to the existence of this species.Ronald McNicoll, [http://www.adb.online.anu.edu.au/biogs/A130451b.htm 'Chapman, Wilfrid Dinsey (1891 - 1955)'], Australian Dictionary of Biography, Volume 13, Melbourne University Press, 1993, pp 404-405.
Distribution and habitat
Bogong gum grows in wet forest and grassy or shrubby woodland, often on steep slopes, in cold mountains areas of Victoria and far southeastern New South Wales. In Victoria it occurs along the highest parts of the Great Dividing Range between Jamieson and Benambra and is also found on Mount Buffalo and Pine Mountain. In New South Wales it is only found south of Khancoban.
Gallery
Image:Eucalyptus Chapmaniana 5201.JPG|Eucalyptus chapmaniana in Kew Gardens
Image:Eucalyptus chapmaniana Mt Buffalo.jpg|Eucalyptus chapmaniana on Mount Buffalo
Image:Eucalyptus chapmaniana Bogong.jpg|Eucalyptus chapmaniana near Bogong