''Eucalyptus bancroftii'', commonly known as Bancroft's red gum or orange gum, is a species of tree that is

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to eastern

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. It has smooth bark, lance-shaped or curved adult leaves, flower buds usually arranged in groups of seven, white flowers and cup-shaped, conical or hemispherical fruit.

Description

''Eucalyptus bancroftii'' is a tree growing to high, with smooth bark which is a patchy grey, salmon and orange, which sheds in large plates. The juvenile leaves are ovate, and a dull grey-green, with the dull, green, concolorous adult leaves being lanceolate or broad-lanceolate, long, wide. The flowers are in groups of seven on a stem of length with four angles. Each flower is on a

terete Terete is a term in botany used to describe a cross section (geometry), cross section that is circular, or like a distorted circle, with a single surface wrapping around it.Lichen Vocabulary, Lichens of North America Information, Sylvia and S ...

stem (

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) of length . The buds are cylindrical or conical, and long and in diameter, and have a scar. The fruit is hemispherical or conical, and long and in diameter with a raised disc and exserted valves.

Taxonomy and naming

Bancroft's red gum was first formally described in 1904 by

Joseph Maiden Joseph Henry Maiden (25 April 1859 – 16 November 1925) was a botanist who made a major contribution to knowledge of the Australian flora, especially the genus ''Eucalyptus''. This botanist is denoted by the author abbreviation when citing ...

who gave it the name ''Eucalyptus tereticornis'' var. ''bancroftii'' and published the description in his book ''The Forest Flora of New South Wales''. In 1917, Maiden raised the variety to species status as ''E. bancroftii'', publishing the change in ''A Critical Revision of the Genus Eucalyptus''. Maiden noted that he collected the

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specimen "from Honeysuckle Flat, about 9 miles south of

Port Macquarie Port Macquarie, sometimes shortened to Port Mac and commonly locally nicknamed Port, is a coastal city on the Mid North Coast of New South Wales, Australia, north of Sydney, and south of Brisbane, on the Tasman Sea coast at the mouth of the ...

, N.S.W., on serpentine country bearing stunted vegetation" in July, 1895. The

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(''bancroftii'') honours "Dr. Thomas Lane Bancroft" for his assistance to Maiden.

Distribution and habitat

''Eucalyptus bancroftii'' occurs from

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and Port Macquarie in

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north to the

Tin Can Bay Tin Can Bay is a coastal town and locality in the Wide Bay–Burnett region in Queensland, Australia. The locality is split between the Fraser Coast Region (the northern part of the locality) and the Gympie Region (southern part of the locality ...

- Boonooroo area in

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. It is mainly found in coastal areas but extends to the adjacent tablelands and grows in open forest and woodland, sometimes in low swampy sites but also on rock outcrops on the tablelands.

References

{{Taxonbar, from=Q5405523 bancroftii Myrtales of Australia Trees of Australia Flora of New South Wales Flora of Queensland Taxa named by Joseph Maiden Plants described in 1904