Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Eucalyptus moorei subsp. moorei
Common name
Little sally, Narrow-leaved sally
Family
Myrtaceae
Where found
Forest understorey, and mallee heath and shrubland, on poorly drained sandy soil near swamps, or on exposed sandstone sites. Ranges and tablelands, rarely elsewhere.
Notes
Mallee to 10 m tall. Bark smooth, shedding in ribbons. Juvenile stems cylindrical, usually warty. Juvenile leaves stalkless and opposite each other for about 8 to 20 pairs, then alternating up the stems, stalkless to shortly stalked, 2.8-4.5 cm long, 6-25 mm wide, earlier leaves dull, grey-green to slightly bluish green, then glossy, green, pointing up. Adult leaves alternating up the stems, 3-9 cm long, 4-13 mm wide, glossy or dull, green to grey-green. Flowers white, with 0 petals. Flower clusters 7- to about 15 flowered, star-shaped. Mature flower buds 4–7 mm long, caps at least as long as the base. Flowers Summer-Autumn. Gumnuts 3-6 mm in diameter. Gumnuts that have dropped their seed have valves that are not very noticeable.
All native plants on unleased land in the ACT are protected.
No description in PlantNET (20 April 2021)
EUCLID description: https://apps.lucidcentral.org/euclid/text/entities/eucalyptus_moorei_subsp._moorei.htm (accessed 20 April 2021)
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