Eucalyptus coolabah

Blakely & Jacobs in W. F. Blakely

Key Eucalypts, 245. 1934.

Common names: Coolibah
Treatment appears in FNA Volume 10.

Trees, to 10 m; trunk grayto tan, rough; bark fissured. Leaves: petiole 1.4–2 cm; blade dull bluish gray-green, narrowly lanceolate, 8–17 × 0.8–2.5 cm, surfaces rarely glaucous. Peduncles 0.5–2.8 cm. Inflo­rescences 7-flowered, terminal, umbels in panicles. Flowers: hypan­thium obconic, ± 2 mm, length ± equaling calyptra; calyptra obconic, apiculate; stamens white. Capsules hemispheric, 3–5 mm, to 6 mm wide; valves 3 or 4, exserted.


Phenology: Flowering spring–summer.
Habitat: Urban ephemeral water­ways.
Elevation: 300–400 m.

Distribution

Introduced; Ariz., n Australia

Discussion

Eucalyptus coolabah is an escape along the occasionally flooded Salt River and its tributaries near Phoenix. It is similar to E. microtheca F. Mueller and commonly sold under that name.

Selected References

None.

Lower Taxa

None.
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