Eucalyptus oraria
{{Short description|Species of eucalyptus}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=July 2019}}
{{speciesbox
|name = Ooragmandee
|image = Eucalyptus oraria.jpg
|image_caption = Eucalyptus oraria south of Dongara
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|genus = Eucalyptus
|species = oraria
|authority = L.A.S.Johnson{{cite web|title=Eucalyptus oraria|url= https://biodiversity.org.au/nsl/services/apc-format/display/68725|publisher=Australian Plant Census|access-date=22 November 2019}}
|synonyms = Eucalyptus tamala D.J.Carr & S.G.M.Carr
}}
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Eucalyptus oraria, commonly known as ooragmandee,{{cite web |last1=Chippendale |first1=George M. |title=Eucalyptus oraria |url=https://profiles.ala.org.au/opus/foa/profile/Eucalyptus%20oraria |publisher=Australian Biological Resources Study, Department of the Environment and Energy, Canberra |access-date=22 November 2019}} is a species of mallee that is endemic to coastal and near-coastal areas of Western Australia. It has smooth greyish bark, sometimes with rough, flaky bark on the base of the trunk, lance-shaped adult leaves, flower buds in groups of nine or more, white flowers and barrel-shaped fruit.
Description
Eucalyptus oraria is a mallee, rarely a tree or low shrub that typically grows to a height of {{cvt|1-15|mm}} and forms a lignotuber. It has smooth, greyish bark that is shed in strips, sometimes with rough, flaky bark on the base of the trunk. Young plants and coppice regrowth have dull green, egg-shaped to lance-shaped leaves that are {{cvt|50-90|mm}} long and {{cvt|13-35|mm}} wide. Adult leaves are the same shade of glossy green on both sides, lance-shaped, {{cvt|65-100|mm}} long and {{cvt|8-23|mm}} wide, tapering to a petiole {{cvt|8-15|mm}} long. The flower buds are arranged in leaf axils in groups of between nine and nineteen or more on an unbranched peduncle {{cvt|5-15|mm}} long, the individual buds on pedicels {{cvt|1-3|mm}} long. Mature buds are oval, {{cvt|4-7|mm}} long and {{cvt|2-4|mm}} wide with a rounded operculum. Flowering mainly occurs from August to October and the flowers are white. The fruit is a woody, barrel-shaped capsule with the valves below the level of the rim.{{cite web |title=Eucalyptus oraria |url=https://apps.lucidcentral.org/euclid/text/entities/eucalyptus_oraria.htm |publisher=Euclid: Centre for Australian National Biodiversity Research |access-date=31 May 2020}}{{FloraBase|name=Eucalyptus oraria|id=5730}}
Taxonomy and naming
Eucalyptus oraria was first formally described in 1962 by Lawrie Johnson from specimens he collected near Dongara in 1960. The specific epithet (oraria) is from the Latin orarius meaning "pertaining to the coast".{{cite book |author=Francis Aubie Sharr |author-link=Francis Aubie Sharr |title=Western Australian Plant Names and their Meanings |date=2019 |publisher=Four Gables Press |location=Kardinya, Western Australia |isbn=9780958034180 |page=266}}
Distribution and habitat
Ooragmandee grows in sand in coastal and near-coastal areas, often over limestone and is found from near Jurien Bay to near Kalbarri and on some nearby offshore islands.