Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Eucalyptus kybeanensis
Common name
Kybean mallee ash, Mallee ash
Family
Myrtaceae
Where found
Mallee shrubland. South of the ACT. Ranges, tablelands, and Kosciuszko National Park.
Notes
Mallee or tree to 15 m tall. Bark smooth throughout, shedding in ribbons, often with scribbles. Sometimes a short stocking of rough bark at the base. Juvenile stems rounded in cross section, warty. Juvenile leaves opposite each other for 2 or 3 pairs, then alternating up the stems, 3.5-10 cm long, 6-20 mm wide, glossy, green, pointing up. Adult leaves alternating up the stems, 5-11 cm long, 5-15 mm wide, glossy, green, more or less pointing up. Flowers white, with 0 petals. Flower clusters 7-11-flowered. Mature flower buds 4–5 mm long, caps shorter than the base. Flowers Spring-Summer. Gumnuts 5-9 mm in diameter. Gumnuts that have dropped their seed have valves that are not very noticeable.
Rare Vic.
PlantNET description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Eucalyptus~kybeanensis (accessed 22 January, 2021)
EUCLID description: https://apps.lucidcentral.org/euclid/text/entities/eucalyptus_kybeanensis.htm (accessed 22 January, 2021)
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