Eucalyptus flindersii
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|name = South Australian grey mallee
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|image_caption = Eucalyptus flindersii near Wilpena Pound
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|genus = Eucalyptus
|species = flindersii
|authority = Boomsma{{cite web|title=Eucalyptus flindersii|url= https://biodiversity.org.au/nsl/services/apc-format/display/83284|publisher=Australian Plant Census|access-date=6 July 2019}}
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Eucalyptus flindersii, commonly known as the South Australian grey mallee, mallee red gum, or grey mallee,{{cite web |title=Eucalyptus flindersii |url=https://apps.lucidcentral.org/euclid/text/entities/eucalyptus_flindersii.htm |publisher=Euclid: Centre for Australian National Biodiversity Research |access-date=2 June 2020}} is a species of mallee that is endemic to South Australia. It usually has smooth, pinkish grey bark, lance-shaped to curved adult leaves, flower buds in groups of three or seven and conical or hemispherical fruit with the valves protruding.File:Eucalyptus flindersii buds.jpgFile:Eucalyptus flindersii fruit.jpg
Description
Eucalyptus flindersii is a mallee, rarely a small tree, and typically grows to a height of {{cvt|1-5|m}} and usually has smooth, dull, grey bark that sheds in flakes to reveal a paler layer, sometimes with rough bark at the base of the trunk. Young plants and coppice regrowth have stems that are more or less square in cross-section, and leaves that are petiolate, egg-shaped, {{cvt|45-110|mm}} long and {{cvt|25-70|mm}} wide. Adult leaves are the same dull to slightly glossy, green to blue-green colour on both sides, lance-shaped to curved, {{cvt|55-180|mm}} long and {{cvt|10-30|mm}} wide on a petiole {{cvt|10-38|mm}} wide. The flower buds are arranged in leaf axils in groups of three or seven on an unbranched peduncle {{cvt|4-18|mm}} long, the individual buds sessile or on pedicels up to {{cvt|5|mm}} long. Mature buds are oval, {{cvt|7-13|mm}} long and {{cvt|4-6|mm}} wide with a rounded to conical operculum. Flowering occurs between August and October and the flowers are white. The fruit is a woody hemispherical to conical capsule {{cvt|3-70|mm}} long and {{cvt|4-10|mm}} wide with the valves protruding above the rim of the fruit.{{cite book |last1=Nicolle |first1=Dean |title=Native Eucalypts of South Australia |date=2013 |publisher=Dean Nicolle |location=Adelaide |isbn=9780646904108 |pages=40–41}}{{cite journal |last1=Boomsma |first1=Clifford D. |title=One new species and two new subspecies of Eucalyptus from southern Australia |journal=Journal of the Adelaide Botanic Gardens |date=1980 |volume=2 |issue=3 |pages=293–295 |url=https://data.environment.sa.gov.au/Content/Publications/JABG02P293_Boomsma.pdf |access-date=6 July 2019}}{{cite web |title=Eucalyptus flindersii |url=http://www.flora.sa.gov.au/cgi-bin/speciesfacts_display.cgi?form=speciesfacts&name=Eucalyptus_flindersii |publisher=State Herbarium of South Australia |access-date=6 July 2019}}{{cite web |last1=Chippendale |first1=George M. |title=Eucalyptus flindersii |url=https://profiles.ala.org.au/opus/foa/profile/Eucalyptus%20flindersii |publisher=Australian Biological Resources Study, Department of the Environment and Energy, Canberra |access-date=6 July 2019}}
Taxonomy and naming
Eucalyptus flindersii was first formally described in 1980 by Clifford Boomsma in the Journal of the Adelaide Botanic Gardens from a specimen collected by Roger Callen on Mount Hack in the Flinders Ranges.{{cite web |title=Callen, Roger Arthur (1943 - ) |url=http://www.anbg.gov.au/biography/callen-roger-arthur.html |publisher=Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria |access-date=6 July 2019}}{{cite web|title=Eucalyptus flindersii|url= https://id.biodiversity.org.au/instance/apni/455258|publisher=APNI|access-date=6 July 2019}} The specific epithet (flindersii) honours Captain Matthew Flinders, after whom the Flinders Ranges, where this species occurs, was named.
Distribution and habitat
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Category:Myrtales of Australia