Kingdom Plantae Family Myrtaceae Rank Species | Order Myrtales Genus Eucalyptus | |
Eucalyptus corrugata, also known as rough fruited mallee, is a eucalypt that is native to Western Australia.
The tree typically grows to a height of 4 to 15 metres (13 to 49 ft). The white or grey and grey-brown or yellow bark is smooth throughout or persistent on the base whee it is fibrous-flaky with whitish patches. The adult leaves are disjunct, glossy, green, thick and concolorous. The blade has a narrow lanceolate or lanceolate to falcate shape that is basally tapered. When the tree blooms between October and March it forms a simple axillary conflorescence with three-flowered umbellasters and terete peduncles. Buds are clavate with calyptrate calyx that sheds early. Fruits form that are hemispherical with a depressed or flat disc and valves that are exserted.
It is distributed through a small are in the Goldfields-Esperance region of Western Australia south west of Kalgoorlie in scrubland whre it grows in rocky clay loam soils.