Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Eucalyptus capitellata
Common name
Brown stringybark
Family
Myrtaceae
Where found
Dry forest and woodland. North from Jervis Bay. Coast, ranges, and tablelands.
Notes
Tree to 25 m tall. Bark stringy throughout, grey or grey-brown to red-brown. Juvenile stems cylindrical, rough. Juvenile leaves opposite each other for 4 to 6 pairs then alternating up the stems, 5.5-8 cm long, 25-40 mm wide, glossy, green. Lower leaves paler on the underside, rough only near the underside; upper leaves soon becoming hairless, the same colour on both sides, and thickish. Intermediate leaves very large, to about 15 cm long, 60–80 mm wide. Adult leaves alternating up the stems, 8-18 cm long, 18-35 mm wide, glossy, green. Flowers white, with 0 petals. Flower clusters 7- to about 15-flowered, usually single, sometimes forming compound clusters on short side shoots. Mature flower buds 6–10 mm long, caps as long as the base. Flowers most of the year. Gumnuts crowded but not deformed by crowding, 7-12 mm in diameter. Gumnuts that have dropped their seed have protruding valves or valves that are not very noticeable.
PlantNET description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Eucalyptus~capitellata (accessed 22 January, 2021)
EUCLID description: https://apps.lucidcentral.org/euclid/text/entities/eucalyptus_capitellata.htm (accessed 22 January, 2021)
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