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Eucalyptus broviniensis

Eucalyptus broviniensis is a species of small tree that is endemic to a small area in Queensland. It has smooth bark, lance-shaped adult leaves, flower buds arranged in groups of seven, white flowers and conical fruit.

Description

Eucalyptus broviniensis is a tree that typically grows to a height of about and forms a lignotuber. It has smooth bark, pale orange when new but fades to grey. Young plants and coppice regrowth have egg-shaped leaves arranged alternately, long, wide and have a petiole. Adult leaves are lance-shaped, long, wide on a petiole long and are the same dull green colour on both sides. The flowers are borne in groups of seven in leaf s on an unbranched peduncle long, the individual buds on a pedicel up to long. Mature buds are oval to spherical, long and about wide with a rounded operculum long. Flowering occurs in summer and the flowers are white. The fruit is a woody conical capsule long and wide with the valves extending above the rim.

Taxonomy and naming

Eucalyptus broviniensis was first formally described in 2001 by Anthony Bean from a specimen collected near Brovinia and the description was published in the journal Austrobaileya. The specific epithet (boliviana) refers to the type location. The ending -ensis is a Latin "denoting place", "locality" or "country".

Distribution and habitat

This eucalypt grows in heath and woodland with a heathy understorey, on the edges of a plateau in the Brovinia State Forest.

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