Eucalyptus × conjuncta is a species of flowering plant that is endemic to a small area of New South Wales. It is a tree with rough stringy bark, lance-shaped adult leaves, flower buds in groups of eleven or more, white flowers and cup-shaped or hemispherical fruit. It is considered to be a stabilised hybrid between E. eugenioides and E. sparsifolia.
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Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Eudicots |
| Clade: | Rosids |
| Order: | Myrtales |
| Family: | Myrtaceae |
| Genus: | Eucalyptus |
| Species: | E. × conjuncta
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| Binomial name | |
| Eucalyptus × conjuncta | |
Description edit
Eucalyptus × conjuncta is a tree with rough, stringy bark on the trunk to the smallest branches. Young plants have leaves that are lance-shaped with finely scalloped edges, up to 80 mm (3.1 in) long and 15 mm (0.59 in) wide. Adult leaves are the same bright, glossy green on both sides, lance-shaped, 90–140 mm (3.5–5.5 in) long and 12–22 mm (0.47–0.87 in) wide on a petiole 9–13 mm (0.35–0.51 in) long. The flower buds are borne in groups of eleven or more on a thin, unbranched peduncle 5–10 mm (0.20–0.39 in) long, the individual buds on a thin pedicel 1–4 mm (0.039–0.157 in) long. Mature buds are oval to spindle-shaped, 5–7 mm (0.20–0.28 in) long and 2–3 mm (0.079–0.118 in) wide with a conical operculum about as long and wide as the floral cup. The flowers are white and the fruit is a woody cup-shaped to hemispherical capsule 4–6 mm (0.16–0.24 in) long and 6–8 mm (0.24–0.31 in) wide with the valves level with the rim or extending beyond it.[2][3]
Taxonomy and naming edit
This eucalypt was first formally described in 1990 by Lawrie Johnson and Ken Hill from a specimen Hill collected from near the Murrurundi golf club. The description was published in the journal Telopea.[4][3] The authors noted that this appears to be a stabilised hybrid between E. eugenioides and E. sparsifolia and the name accepted by the Australian Plant Census is Eucalyptus × conjuncta. The specific epithet (conjuncta) is a Latin word meaning "connected" or "united",[5] in reference to the intermediate features of this species.[3]
Distribution and habitat edit
Eucalyptus × conjuncta grows in woodland on poor soil usually on sloping sites and is only known from near Murrurundi.[2][3]
References edit
- ^ "Eucalyptus × conjuncta". Australian Plant Census. Retrieved 8 May 2019.
- ^ a b Hill, Ken. "Eucalyptus × conjuncta". Royal Botanic Garden Sydney. Retrieved 8 May 2019.
- ^ a b c d Johnson, Lawrence A.S.; Hill, Kenneth D. (1990). "New taxa and combination in Eucalyptus and Angophora (Myrtaceae)". Telopea. 4 (1): 93–94. doi:10.7751/telopea19904916.
- ^ "Eucalyptus × conjuncta". APNI. Retrieved 6 April 2019.
- ^ Brown, Roland Wilbur (1956). The Composition of Scientific Words. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press. p. 228.