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Eucalyptus leptophylla

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Kingdom
  
Plantae

Family
  
Myrtaceae

Rank
  
Species

Order
  
Myrtales

Genus
  
Eucalyptus

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Eucalyptus socialis, Eucalyptus incrassata, Eucalyptus dumosa, Eucalyptus foecunda, Eucalyptus porosa

Eucalyptus leptophylla, commonly known as the march mallee, slender-leaved red mallee or narrow-leaved red mallee, is a tree native to inland Australia.

The mallee typically grows to 6 metres (20 ft) can grow to as high as 10 metres (33 ft) and has smooth grey bark that is persistent on the lower trunk that becomes a red-brown colour higher. The bark sheds in short ribbons. Adult leaves disjunct, green, glossy and concolorous they have a linear or narrow-lanceolate with a blade that is 5 to 8 centimetres (2.0 to 3.1 in) long and 0.5 to 1 cm (0.20 to 0.39 in) wide. It blooms between March and August and produces cream-white flowers. The umbellasters are 7 to 13-flowered with a terete peduncle that is 0.6 to 1 cm (0.24 to 0.39 in) long and terete pedicels. Later it will form hemispherical or ovoid-truncate fruit that are 0.3 to 0.5 cm (0.12 to 0.20 in) ong with the same diameter.

E. leptophylla is found in low woodland a mallee scrubland growing in white, yellow or red sand or red-brown loam over gravel or granite. Found on rises, sometimes around salt lakes, on sand plains and near granite outcrops. It is distributed through southern Wheatbelt and Goldfields-Esperance regions of Western Australia, through South Australia, Victoria and in New South Wales from Wilcannia to West Wyalong.

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Eucalyptus leptophylla Wikipedia


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