''Corymbia latifolia'', commonly known as round-leaved bloodwood, round leaf bloodwood, wubam and other names in

indigenous Indigenous may refer to: *Indigenous peoples *Indigenous (ecology) In biogeography, a native species is indigenous to a given region or ecosystem if its presence in that region is the result of only local natural evolution (though often populari ...

languages, is a species of tree that is

endemic Endemism is the state of a species being found only in a single defined geographic location, such as an island, state, nation, country or other defined zone; organisms that are indigenous to a place are not endemic to it if they are also foun ...

to northern Australia. It has thin, rough bark over part or all of the trunk, smooth bark above, triangular or broadly egg-shaped adult leaves, flower buds in groups of seven, creamy white flowers and urn-shaped fruit.

Description

''Corymbia latifolia'' typically grows to a height of with thin, rough, scaly or flaky to tessellated bark on part or all of the trunk, smooth white to cream-coloured bark above. Yount plants and

coppice Coppicing is the traditional method in woodland management of cutting down a tree to a tree stump, stump, which in many species encourages new Shoot (botany), shoots to grow from the stump or roots, thus ultimately regrowing the tree. A forest ...

regrowth have dull green, broadly egg-shaped to round leaves that are long, wide and petiolate. Adult leaves are arranged alternately, dull green, triangular to broadly egg-shaped or elliptical, long and wide on a petiole long. The flowers buds are arranged on the ends of branchlets on a thin, branched peduncle long, each branch of the peduncle with seven buds on

pedicels In botany, a pedicel is a stem that attaches a single flower to the inflorescence In botany, an inflorescence is a group or cluster of flowers arranged on a plant's Plant stem, stem that is composed of a main branch or a system of branch ...

long. Mature buds are smooth and glossy, oval, pear-shaped or more or less spherical, long and wide with a rounded operculum. Flowering occurs between November and March and the flowers are creamy white.

Taxonomy and naming

Round-leaved bloodwood was first formally described in 1859 by

Ferdinand von Mueller Baron Sir Ferdinand Jacob Heinrich von Mueller, (; 30 June 1825 – 10 October 1896) was a German-Australian physician, geographer, and most notably, a botanist. He was appointed government botanist for the then colony of Victoria, Australia ...

in '' Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society, Botany'' and was given the name ''Eucalyptus latifolia''. In 1995, Ken Hill and

Lawrie Johnson Lawrence Alexander Sidney Johnson (26 June 1925 – 1 August 1997) known as Lawrie Johnson, was an Australian taxonomic botanist. He worked at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Sydney, for the whole of his professional career, as a botanist (1948–1 ...

changed the name to ''Corymbia latifolia''. Indigenous Australians of the

Yangman The Yangman were an indigenous Australian people of the Northern Territory. Language The Yangman language was closely related to Wardaman and Dalabon, and survives fragmentarily as passive knowledge among a few Mangarrayi people, descendants t ...

peoples know the plant as wubam or dolyan, the

Ngarinyman The Ngarinman or Ngarinyman people are an Aboriginal Australian people of the Northern Territory who spoke the Ngarinyman language. Country According to an estimate made by Norman Tindale, the Ngarinman held some of territory. Their central do ...

know it as jadburru, the

Warray The Awarai (Warray) are an indigenous Australian people of the Northern Territory. Language The Norwegian explorer Knut Dahl wrote down a short list of vocabulary of the Awarai language. Country The Awarai tribal lands took in some of territ ...

as warrajan and the

Wagiman The Wagiman, also spelt Wagoman, Wagaman, Wogeman, and other variants, are an Aboriginal Australian people of the Northern Territory. Language The Wagiman language is a language isolate. It has been contrasted for its comparative roughness to t ...

as jimarnin.

Distribution and habitat

''Corymbia latifolia'' is found on rocky slopes, plateaus and hills growing in sandy soils and has a range across the north of Australia extending from the tip of

Cape York Peninsula The Cape York Peninsula is a peninsula located in Far North Queensland, Australia. It is the largest wilderness in northern Australia.Mittermeier, R.E. et al. (2002). Wilderness: Earth's last wild places. Mexico City: Agrupación Sierra Madre, ...

in Queensland through the

Top End The Top End of Australia's Northern Territory is a geographical region encompassing the northernmost section of the Northern Territory, which aside from the Cape York Peninsula is the northernmost part of the Australian continent. It covers a ...

and off-shore islands of the Northern Territory to the

Kimberley Kimberly or Kimberley may refer to: Places and historical events Australia Queensland * Kimberley, Queensland, a coastal locality in the Shire of Douglas South Australia * County of Kimberley, a cadastral unit in South Australia Ta ...

region of Western Australia. There are also scattered populations in Papua New Guinea and on some

Torres Strait Islands The Torres Strait Islands are an archipelago of at least 274 small islands in the Torres Strait, a waterway separating far northern continental Australia's Cape York Peninsula and the island of New Guinea. They span an area of , but their tot ...

. It is sometimes the dominant species in low-lying areas in wetter part of the Northern Territory and the Kimberley.

References

{{Taxonbar, from=Q15397305 latifolia Myrtales of Australia Flora of Western Australia Flora of the Northern Territory Flora of Queensland Flora of Papua New Guinea Plants described in 1859 Taxa named by Ferdinand von Mueller

Description

Taxonomy and naming

Distribution and habitat

See also

References