Flower buds. Australian Plant Image Index, photo: JR Connors, Great Victoria Desert, WA

Flower buds, gum nuts, and leaves. Photo: Don Wood, Scotia Sanctuary, NSW

Flower buds and leaves. Photo: Don Wood, planted at Scotia Sanctuary, NSW

Mallee. Photo: Don Wood, Scotia Sanctuary, NSW

Mallee. Photo: Don Wood, planted at Scotia Sanctuary, NSW

Common Name

Slender-Leaf Mallee, Narrow-leaf Red Mallee, Narrow-Leaved Mallee, March Mallee

Family

Myrtaceae

Notes

Mallee to 10m tall.  Bark smooth, or a short stocking of rough bark at the base.  New bark orange.  No oil glands in the branchlet pith.  Leaves aromatic when crushed, alternating up the stems, 3-10cm long, 3-13mm wide, glossy green, flat, hairless, with pointed tips or with hooked points.  Flowers white, with 0 petals, in clusters of 7-13 at the bases of the leaves.  Bud caps as long as or slightly longer than the base.  Nut valves not very noticeable.

Description and photo (as Eucalyptus foecunda) (page 531) and line drawing of bud and nut (Fig. 57j page 531) in G.M. Cunningham, WE Mulham, PL Milthorpe and J H Leigh (1981 and later printings) Plants of Western New South Wales

Description and photographs in the DVD/thumb drive Euclid

PlantNET description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Eucalyptus~leptophylla

FloraBase photos:  http://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au/browse/photo/15682