Kingdom Plantae Family Myrtaceae Rank Species | Order Myrtales Genus Corymbia | |
Corymbia torta is a bloodwood native to Western Australia
The tree typically grows to a height of 12 to 15 metres (39 to 49 ft) and has smooth white bark that is shed from the tree in thin scales. Adult leaves are disjunct, glossy, green to grey-green and concolorous they have a thin, linear to narrow lanceolate or lanceolate shape that is basally tapered. Petioles are narrowly flattened or channelled.
It produces white flowers in May or November and produces an axillary, compound or simple, conflorescence with irregular seven to eleven flowered umbellasters. Fruits that are cylindrical to ovoid and pedicellate containing red or red-brown seeds form later.
The range of C. torta is confined to a part of the Kimberley region where it is found in the Central Kimberley and Northern Kimberley IBRA bioregions. It grows in skeletal sandy soils over sandstone or granite.
There are three subspecies: