''Eucalyptus pauciflora'' subsp. ''parvifructa'' is a mallee or small tree that is

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to a small area of Victoria, Australia. It has smooth bark, slightly

glaucous ''Glaucous'' (, ) is used to describe the pale grey or bluish-green appearance of the surfaces of some plants, as well as in the names of birds, such as the glaucous gull (''Larus hyperboreus''), glaucous-winged gull (''Larus glaucescens''), g ...

branchlets, glossy green, lance-shaped adult leaves, flower buds usually in groups of seven, white flowers and hemispherical or cup-shaped fruit. It differs from other subspecies of ''E. pauciflora'' in having a smaller habit and smaller leaves, flower buds and fruit.

Description

''Eucalyptus pauciflora'' subsp. ''parvifructa'' is a mallee or tree that typically grows to a height of and forms a lignotuber. It has smooth, whitish bark. Young plants and coppice regrowth have dull greyish green, lance-shaped to broadly lance-shaped leaves that are up to long and wide with waxy petioles up to long. Adult leaves are lustrous green, lance-shaped to egg-shaped, up to long and wide on a petiole up to long. The flower buds are arranged in leaf

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s in groups of seven, rarely nine on a thin, flattened, unbranched peduncle up to long. Mature buds are club-shaped, about long and wide with a conical or hemispherical operculum. The flowers are white and the fruit is a woody, hemispherical, conical or cup-shaped capsule long and wide with the valves near rim level. Subspecies ''parvifructa'' differs from others in the species in having a smaller habit and smaller leaves, flower buds and fruit.

Taxonomy and naming

''Eucalyptus pauciflora'' subsp. ''parvifructa'' was first formally described in 1994 by

Kevin James Rule Kevin James Rule was born at Daylesford, Victoria on 9 November 1941. He was a secondary school teacher and had a particular interest in the taxonomy of Australian eucalyptus. He discovered several new species in Victoria. He is an honorary asso ...

in the journal '' Muelleria'', from material collected near the summit of Mount William in 1970. The

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(''parvifructa'') is from

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, referring to the small size of the fruit.

Distribution

This subspecies is only known from the Mount William Range in the

Grampians National Park The Grampians National Park commonly referred to as The Grampians, is a national park located in the Grampians region of Victoria, Australia. The Jardwadjali name for the mountain range itself is Gariwerd. The national park is situated betwee ...

at altitudes of between .

References

{{Taxonbar, from=Q66104208 pauciflora Flora of Victoria (state) Plants described in 1994