Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Eucalyptus kartzoffiana
Common name
Araluen gum
Family
Myrtaceae
Where found
Wet forest and grassy or shrubby woodland, near streams. Ranges and the eastern edge of the tablelands, between the Kings Highway and Deua National Park.
Notes
Tree to 30 m tall. Bark rough on part or most of the trunk, usually rough for up to 4 m from the ground; scaly, fibrous-flaky, or 'box' type, grey or grey-brown to pale brown. Smooth bark shedding in long ribbons, occasionally with horizontal black scars. Branchlets often glaucous. Juvenile stems rounded or square in cross section, glaucous, warty. Juvenile leaves stalkless, often cordate, opposite each other for many pairs, 4.5-6.5 cm long, 15-45 mm wide, glaucous. Crown often consisting of stalked, broadly lance head shaped, intermediate and adult leaves alternating up the stems. Adult leaves 8-26.5 cm long, 10-36 mm wide, dull, green to blue-green or glaucous. Flowers white, with 0 petals. Flower clusters 3-flowered. Mature flower buds 5–7 mm long, caps shorter than the base. Flowers Summer. Gumnuts 4-9 mm in diameter, often glaucous. Gumnuts that have dropped their seed have strongly 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=10297 (accessed 5 January 2021)
PlantNET description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Eucalyptus~kartzoffiana (accessed 5 January 2021)
EUCLID description: https://apps.lucidcentral.org/euclid/text/entities/eucalyptus_kartzoffiana.htm (accessed 5 January 2021)
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