Plants of South Eastern New South Wales

Eucalyptus imlayensis

Flower buds. Australian Plant Image Index, photographers Brooker & Kleinig, unknown place

Gumnuts. Australian Plant Image Index, photographers Brooker & Kleinig, unknown place

Juvenile leaves. Australian Plant Image Index, photographer Michael Crisp, Australian National Botanic Gardens, Canberra, ACT

Trunks. Australian Plant Image Index, photographer Michael Crisp, Mt Imlay summit south of Eden

Common name

Imlay mallee, Mt Imlay mallee

Family

Myrtaceae

Where found

Woodland and shrubland on a steep rocky slope. Upper slopes of Mt Imlay, south of Eden.

Notes

Mallee to 7 m tall.  Bark smooth throughout, or with a few rough strips at the base of the largest stems.  Smooth bark on the stems and branches shedding in long ribbons.  Juvenile stems square in cross section, sometimes winged, slightly warty.  Juvenile leaves opposite each other for 7-13 pairs, then alternating up the stems, stalkless for at least 20 pairs, 4-7.5 cm long, 15-30 mm wide, glossy, green.  Adult leaves alternating up the stems, 7.5-15 cm long, 15-30 mm wide, glossy to semi-glossy, green. Flowers white, with 0 petals. Flower clusters 3-flowered.  Mature flower buds 5–7 mm long, caps shorter than to as long as the base.  Gumnuts 6-8 mm in diameter.  Gumnuts that have dropped their seed have protruding valves. 

Endangered Australia. Critically endangered NSW. Provisions of the NSW 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=10296  (accessed 22 January, 2021)

PlantNET description:   http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Eucalyptus~imlayensis  (accessed 22 January, 2021)

EUCLID description:  https://apps.lucidcentral.org/euclid/text/entities/eucalyptus_imlayensis.htm  (accessed 22 January, 2021)