''Eucalyptus laevopinea'', commonly known as the silver top stringybark, is a 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 eastern Australia. It has rough, stringy greyish bark on the trunk and larger branches, glossy green, lance-shaped adult leaves, flower buds in groups of between seven and eleven, white flowers and hemispherical or shortened spherical fruit. Eucalyptus laevopinea - stringy bark

Description

''Eucalyptus laevopinea'' is a tree that typically grows to a height of and forms a

lignotuber A lignotuber is a woody swelling of the root crown possessed by some plants as a protection against destruction of the plant stem, such as by fire. Other woody plants may develop basal burls as a similar survival strategy, often as a respons ...

. It has rough, thick, stringy, greyish bark on the trunk and larger branches, smooth whitish bark above. Young 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 lance-shaped to egg-shaped leaves that are paler on the lower surface, long and wide. Adult leaves are lance-shaped to curved, the same shade of glossy green on both sides, long and wide on a

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long. The flower buds are arranged in leaf axils in groups of seven, nine or eleven on an unbranched peduncle long, the individual 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 oval, long and about wide with a rounded, conical or beaked operculum. Flowering occurs between January and April or between July and September and the flowers are white. The fruit is a woody hemispherical or shortened spherical capsule long and wide with the valves near rim level or slightly protruding.

Taxonomy and naming

''Eucalyptus laevopinea'' was first described in 1898 by

Richard Thomas Baker Richard Thomas Baker (1 December 1854 – 14 July 1941) was an Australian economic Botany, botanist, museum curator and educator. Early life Baker was born in Woolwich, England, son of Richard Thomas Baker, a blacksmith, and his wife Sarah, née ...

in ''

Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales The Linnean Society of New South Wales promotes ''the Cultivation and Study of the Science of Natural History in all its Branches'' and was founded in Sydney, New South Wales (Australia) in 1874 and incorporated in 1884. History The Society succ ...

''. The

specific epithet In Taxonomy (biology), taxonomy, binomial nomenclature ("two-term naming system"), also called binary nomenclature, is a formal system of naming species of living things by giving each a name composed of two parts, both of which use Latin gramm ...

(''laevopinea'') is derived from the Latin ''laevo-'' meaning 'left' and ''

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'', an

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, referring to the

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pinene.

Distribution and habitat

The silver top stringybark occurs between the

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district in New South Wales to the

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and

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districts in southern Queensland. It grows in hilly areas of the tablelands in open forest.

References

{{Taxonbar, from=Q5405613 laevopinea Myrtales of Australia Flora of New South Wales Flora of Queensland Plants described in 1898 Taxa named by Richard Thomas Baker