Plants of South Eastern New South Wales

Eucalyptus scias subsp. scias

Flowering stem. Australian Plant Image Index, photographer Murray Fagg, Australian National Botanic Gardens, Canberra, ACT

Bark, leaves, and flower buds. Photographer Jackie Miles, Surf Beach, north of Batemans Bay

Gumnuts. Australian Plant Image Index, photographer Murray Fagg, Australian National Botanic Gardens, Canberra, ACT

Common name

Large-fruited red mahogany, Red mahogany

Family

Myrtaceae

Where found

Forest. Coast and ranges north from Deua National Park.

Notes

Tree or mallee to 20 m tall.  Bark fibrous to stringy throughout, in long slabs with shallow furrows, grey or brown.  Juvenile stems round or square in cross section.  Juvenile leaves opposite each other for 3 to 6 pairs, then alternating up the stems, 6-20 cm long, 20-60 mm wide, dull to glossy, green, upper and lower surfaces different colours.  Adult leaves alternating up the stems, 7-20 cm long, 13-60 mm wide, glossy, green, upper and lower surfaces different colours.  Flowers white, with 0 petals.  Flower clusters 3-7 flowered.  Mature flower buds 11–23 mm long, caps at least as long as the base.  Flowers Summer.  Gumnuts 9-20 mm in diameter, often 2-ribbed longitudinally. Gumnuts that have dropped their seed have strongly protruding valves.

Eucalyptus scias subsp.. scias and Eucalyptus scias subsp. callimastha in PlantNET. The name Eucalyptus scias subsp. callimastha is regarded as a synonym of Eucalyptus scias subsp.. scias by the Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (accessed 20 April 2021)

PlantNET description:  http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Eucalyptus~scias  (accessed 20 April 2021)

EUCLID description:  https://apps.lucidcentral.org/euclid/text/entities/eucalyptus_scias_subsp._scias.htm  (accessed 20 April 2021)