Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Eucalyptus deuaensis
Common name
Mongamulla mallee
Family
Myrtaceae
Where found
Shrubland on steep, rocky rhyolite cliffs. In and near Deua National Park.
Notes
Mallee, sometimes a tree, to 5 m tall. Bark smooth throughout, shedding in ribbons. Juvenile stems rounded in cross section, rough at least to about the fifteenth node. Juvenile leaves stalkless and opposite each other for 9-12 pairs, then alternating up the stems, 3.5-7.5 cm long, 13–23 mm wide, margins rough, surfaces rough for 13-16 nodes, glossy, green. Older juvenile leaves not rough, blue-green, pointing up. Adult leaves alternating up the stems, 7-10 cm long, 10-23 mm wide, glossy or dull, blue-green, pointing up. Flowers white, with 0 petals. Flower clusters 7 flowered. Mature flower buds 7–9 mm long, caps shorter than the base. Flowers Spring-Summer. Gumnuts 10-15 mm in diameter, more or less angular. Gumnuts that have dropped their seed have protruding valves.
PlantNET description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Eucalyptus~deuaensis (accessed 22 January, 2021)
EUCLID description: https://apps.lucidcentral.org/euclid/text/entities/eucalyptus_deuaensis.htm (accessed 22 January, 2021)
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