Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Eucalyptus aquatica
Common name
Broad-leaved sally, Mountain swamp gum
Family
Myrtaceae
Where found
Scattered on open swampy flats. In and near Penrose and Wingello State Forests west of Bundanoon.
Notes
Tree or mallee to 7 m tall. Bark smooth, shedding in long ribbons. Juvenile leaves alternating up the stems, glossy green. Adult leaves 5-10 cm long, 20-40 mm wide, green or glaucous, dull. Flowers white, with 0 petals. Flowers in 7-flowered clusters. Mature flower buds 8 mm long, caps as long as the base. Gumnuts 4-7 mm in diameter. Gumnuts that have dropped their seed have protruding valves.
Vulnerable Australia. Vulnerable NSW. Provisions of the Biodiversity Conservation Act 2016 No 63 relating to the protection of protected plants generally also apply to plants that are a threatened species.
NSW Threatened Species profile: http://www.environment.nsw.gov.au/threatenedSpeciesApp/profile.aspx?id=10283 (accessed 5 January, 2021)
PlantNET description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Eucalyptus~aquatica (accessed 5 January, 2021)
There is no fact sheet about this species in EUCLID (5 January, 2021).
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