Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Eucalyptus cypellocarpa
Common name
Monkey gum, Monkey grey gum, Mountain grey gum, Mountain gum, Spotted mountain grey gum
Family
Myrtaceae
Where found
Forest and sheltered valleys. Coast, ranges, and tablelands. No coastal records between Batemans Bay and the Illawarra Highway.
Notes
Tree to 65 m tall, rarely a mallee. Bark smooth throughout, or with some persistent slabs of rough bark or thin rough box-type bark on the lower trunk, often with horizontal bark scars on rough or smooth bark. Smooth bark shedding in long ribbons. Juvenile stems square in cross section, prominently winged, occasionally glaucous. Juvenile leaves stalkless and opposite each other for many pairs; bases often stem-clasping, 4.5-17.5 cm long, 18-75 mm wide, glossy, green, with a waxy bloom only on new growing tips, visible wax not persisting as the leaves expand. Adult leaves alternating up the stems, 9-32 cm long, 10-48 mm wide, usually glossy green, sometimes dull or semi-glossy. Flowers white, with 0 petals. Flower clusters 7-flowered, rarely 3-flowered. Mature flower buds 8-12 mm long, caps shorter than the base. Flowers most of the year. Gumnuts 5-10 mm in diameter, more or less angled. Gumnuts that have dropped their seed have valves that are not very noticeable, rarely with protruding valves.
PlantNET description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Eucalyptus~cypellocarpa (accessed 22 January, 2021)
EUCLID description: https://apps.lucidcentral.org/euclid/text/entities/eucalyptus_cypellocarpa.htm (accessed 22 January, 2021)
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