''Eucalyptus apothalassica'' is a tree native to New South Wales in eastern Australia.

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s for the species include inland white mahogany. Eucalyptus apothalassica fruit

Description

''Eucalyptus apothalassica'' typically grows to a height of around and forms a

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. The rough, fibrous, grey or grey-brown bark sometimes feels prickly to touch The bark is attached to the trunk in flat strips rather than typical stringybark. The dull or glossy, green, concolorous adult leaves are alternately arranged. The leaf blade has a lanceolate to falcate shape and is in length and wide. It blooms around October and has produces axillary unbranched

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s which often are situated near ends of branches in clusters. The mature green to yellow buds have an ovoid to fusiform shape with a length of and a width of with white flowers. After flowering pedicellate fruits form with a hemispherical or barrel-shape. Each fruit has a length of and wide with a descending disc and three to four valves near rim level. The brown coloured seeds within have a pyramidal shape and a length of .

Taxonomy

The species was first formally described by the botanists

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

and Kenneth Hill in 1990 in the work ''New taxa and combinations in Eucalyptus and Angophora (Myrtaceae)'' as published in the journal '' Telopea''. The

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is taken from the

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words '' apo'' meaning ''away from'' and ''thalassicos'' meaning ''of the sea'' in reference to its range compared to other white mahogany species which are found in more coastal areas. ''E. apothalassica'' is part of the white mahogany group as recognised by Ken Hill, others in the group include; ''

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Distribution

The tree is found as a part of dry sclerophyll woodland communities found on sandstone based soils. It is

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around Yetman in northern

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in the south extending north to

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and Yarraman in south eastern

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References

{{Taxonbar, from=Q15398446 apothalassica Myrtales of Australia Flora of New South Wales Flora of Queensland Trees of Australia Plants described in 1990