Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Eucalyptus langleyi
Common name
Albatross mallee, Green mallee ash
Family
Myrtaceae
Where found
Mallee shrubland on poorly drained shallow sandy soils. Coast and ranges north from west of Jervis Bay. Tablelands north east of Nerriga.
Notes
Mallee to 6 m tall. Bark usually smooth throughout, shedding in ribbons. Sometimes a few strips of rough bark at the base of the stems. Juvenile stems square in cross section and often prominently winged, densely warty on the lower stems. Juvenile leaves opposite each other for about 4 pairs, then alternating up the stems, 9-14 cm long, 20-55 mm wide, glossy, green. Adult leaves alternating up the stems, 8-18 cm long, 18-50 mm wide, glossy, green. Flowers white, with 0 petals. Flower clusters 7-11 flowered. Mature flower buds 7–14 mm long, caps much shorter than the base. Flowers Autumn and Spring. Gumnuts 8-12 mm in diameter, often ribbed. Gumnuts that have dropped their seed have valves that are not very noticeable.
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=10298 (accessed 5 January 2021)
Endangered population north of the Shoalhaven River in the Shoalhaven local government area.
NSW Threatened Population profile: http://www.environment.nsw.gov.au/threatenedSpeciesApp/profile.aspx?id=20155 (accessed 5 January 2021)
PlantNET description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Eucalyptus~langleyi (accessed 5 January 2021)
EUCLID description: https://apps.lucidcentral.org/euclid/text/entities/eucalyptus_langleyi.htm (accessed 5 January 2021)
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