Kingdom Plantae Family Myrtaceae Rank Species | Order Myrtales Genus Corymbia | |
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Corymbia zygophylla, commonly known as the Broome Bloodwood, is a species of plant in the myrtle family that is native to northern Western Australia.
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Description
It grows as a straggly tree up to 9 m in height, with rough, tessellated bark. It produces cream-white flowers from December to January.
Distribution and habitat
It occurs on red sandy soils, on dunes and sandplains. In Western Australia it is found in the Carnarvon, Central Kimberley, Dampierland, Great Sandy Desert, Ord Victoria Plain and Pilbara IBRA bioregions.
Classification
The species was first formally described as Eucalyptus zygophylla by the botanist William Blakely in 1934 in the work A Key to the Eucalypts. In 1995, it was reclassified into the Corymbia genera by Kenneth Hill and Lawrence Johnson along with over 100 other Eucalypts in the work Systematic studies in the eucalypts. A revision of the bloodwoods, genus Corymbia in the journal Telopea.