Kingdom Plantae Family Myrtaceae Rank Species | Order Myrtales Genus Eucalyptus | |
Similar Eucalyptus angustissima, Eucalyptus accedens, Eucalyptus agglomerata, Eucalyptus aggregata, Eucalyptus amplifolia | ||
Eucalyptus aequioperta, commonly known as the Welcome Hill gum, is a tree that is native in Western Australia.
The mallee or tree typically grows to a height of 5 to 8 metres (16 to 26 ft) but can reach as high as 20 metres (66 ft) and forms a lignotuber. The bark is a dark grey colour, firm and flaky to fibrous for over half of the trunk and extending to large limbs that becomes slightly tessellated on older trees. On higher branches above the bark is smooth, dull and pinkish grey to white. Adult leaves are alternate, concolorous, glossy and green supported on petioles 0.8 to 1.7 centimetres (0.31 to 0.67 in) in length. The leaf balde is linear to narrowly lanceolate or falcate in shape with a length of 6 to 11 cm (2.4 to 4.3 in) and a width of 0.6 to 2 cm (0.24 to 0.79 in). The leaf base tapers to petiole, the margin is entire and it has a pointed apex.
It is found in red sand on sandhills in the Wheatbelt and Goldfields-Esperance regions of Western Australia.