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''Corymbia leichhardtii'', commonly known as rustyjacket, Leichhardt's rustyjacket, or yellow jacket, is a species of tree that is endemic to Queensland. It has rough, tessellated bark on the trunk and branches, lance-shaped or curved adult leaves, flower buds in groups of seven, white flowers and barrel-shaped, urn-shaped or shortened spherical fruit.
''Corymbia leichhardtii'', commonly known as rustyjacket, Leichhardt's rustyjacket, or yellow jacket, is a species of tree that is endemic to Queensland. It has rough, tessellated bark on the trunk and branches, lance-shaped or curved adult leaves, flower buds in groups of seven, white flowers and barrel-shaped, urn-shaped or shortened spherical fruit.
Description
''Corymbia leichhardtii'' is a tree that typically grows to a height of and forms a lignotuber. It has rough, tessellated, thick, soft, pale brown to yellow-brown or orange on the trunk and branches. Young plants and coppice regrowth have more or less round to egg-shaped or triangular leaves that are long and wide andpetiolate
Petiole may refer to:
*Petiole (botany), the stalk of a leaf, attaching the blade to the stem
*Petiole (insect anatomy)
In entomology, petiole is the technical term for the narrow waist of some hymenopteran insects, especially ants, bees, a ...
. The adult leaves are thin, the same shade of dull, grey-green on both sides, lance-shaped or curved, long and wide on a petiole long. The flower buds are arranged on the ends of branchlets on a branched peduncle Peduncle may refer to:
*Peduncle (botany), a stalk supporting an inflorescence, which is the part of the shoot of seed plants where flowers are formed
*Peduncle (anatomy), a stem, through which a mass of tissue is attached to a body
**Peduncle (art ...
long, each branch of the peduncle with seven buds on pedicels about long. Flowering occurs between January and March and the flowers are white. The fruit is a woody barrel-shaped, urn-shaped or shortened spherical capsule long and wide with the valves enclosed in the fruit.
Taxonomy and naming
Rustyjacket was first formally described in 1906 by Frederick Manson Bailey in 1906 in the ''Queensland Agricultural Journal'' as ''Eucalyptus leichhardtii''. In 1995, Ken Hill and Lawrie Johnson changed the name to ''Corymbia leichhardtii''. Thespecific epithet
In taxonomy, binomial nomenclature ("two-term naming system"), also called nomenclature ("two-name naming system") or binary nomenclature, is a formal system of naming species of living things by giving each a name composed of two parts, bot ...
(''leichhardtii'') honours the explorer Ludwig Leichhardt.
Distribution and habitat
''Corymbia leichhardtii'' has a range stretching from Mareeba inNorth Queensland
North Queensland or the Northern Region is the northern part of the Australian state of Queensland that lies just south of Far North Queensland. Queensland is a massive state, larger than many countries, and its tropical northern part has been ...
south to Salvator Rosa National Park in Central Queensland. It is found in tropical and subtropical sclerophyll woodlands and grows in sandy soils over sandstone.
Conservation status
This eucalypt is classified as of "least concern" under the Queensland Government '' Nature Conservation Act 1992''.See also
*List of Corymbia species
The following is a list of species in the genus ''Corymbia'' accepted by the Australian Plant Census as at April 2023.
Species
*'' Corymbia abbreviata'' ( Blakely & Jacobs) K.D.Hill & L.A.S.Johnson – scraggy bloodwood (W.A., N.T.)
*'' Corymb ...
References
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