Kingdom Plantae Family Myrtaceae Rank Species | Order Myrtales Genus Eucalyptus | |
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Eucalyptus dolichocera is a eucalypt that is native to Western Australia.
The mallee typically grows to a height of 6 metres (20 ft) and has rough and ribbony up half of the trunk. The bark is grey below to grey-brown or red-brown in colour above. The tree blooms between October and November and produces simple axillary conflorescences with seven to eleven flowered umbellasters on peduncles that are narrowly flattened or angular. Buds are glaucous and rostrate or urceolate in shape with a calyptrate calyx that sheds early. Ovoid or urceolate shaped fruits with a depressed disc form later.
The species is found in sanddunes, on flats and sandplains and has a range from just north of Geraldton in the Mid West then spreading south down through the Wheatbelt region. It grows in red sand and limestone and laterite soils.