Kingdom Plantae Family Myrtaceae Rank Species | Order Myrtales Genus Eucalyptus | |
Similar Eucalyptus platypus, Eucalyptus dura, Eucalyptus megacornuta, Eucalyptus olsenii, Eucalyptus eremophila | ||
Eucalyptus nutans is a mallee tree that is native to a small area along the south coast of Western Australia.
The species was first described by the botanist Ferdinand von Mueller in 1863 from samples that George Maxwell had collected near Bremer Bay. Around a century and a half later, Ian Brooker and Stephen Hopper published the names Eucalyptus platypus subsp. congregata, E.cernua and E. vesiculosa in 2002 which were al previously thought to be E. nutans.
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