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Pallinup River Mallet

Eucalyptus melanophitra

Family
Myrtaceae (Myrtle family)
Grows as
Tree
Native range
SSW. Western Australia
Climate
subtropical

About

Eucalyptus melanophitra is a species of mallet that is endemic to a restricted area of Western Australia. It has rough, flaky grey bark on the trunk, smooth grey bark above, narrow lance-shaped adult leaves, flower buds in groups of nine or eleven, pale yellow flowers and cylindrical to barrel-shaped fruit.

Where it grows

This eucalypt is found on stony breakaways in small areas near the Pallinup River and the Corackerup Nature Reserve, where it grows in skeletal soils over laterite.

Other Eucalyptus plants

Eucalyptus abdita · Badgingarra Box · Wattle Leaved Peppermint · Powder Bark Wandoo · Woolbernup Mallee · White-mahogany · Lakefield Coolibah · Wellstead Mallee · Eucalyptus aenea · Welcome Hill Gum · Blue-leaf stringybark · Black Gum

Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Eucalyptus melanophitra by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts are shared under the same licence.

Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.

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