Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Eucalyptus rossii
Common name
Inland scribbly gum, White gum, Scribbly gum
Family
Myrtaceae
Where found
Dry forest, woodland, and stony slopes. Western Slopes, ACT, tablelands, and ranges.
Notes
Tree to 20 m tall. Bark smooth, shedding in short ribbons, usually with scribbles, rarely powdery, with wrinkles under the armpits, especially in the ACT. Juvenile stems warty or smooth. Juvenile leaves opposite each other for 6 to 8 pairs then alternating up the stems, 7-14 cm long, 15-40 mm wide, stalkless at first, then with short stalks, dull, green to blue-green or grey-green. Adult leaves alternating up the stems, 5.5-20 cm long, 8-25 mm wide, glossy or dull, green to blue-green or grey-green. Flowers white, with 0 petals. Flower clusters 5- to about 15 flowered, in single clusters at the base of the leaves, occasionally forming compound clusters at the ends of the branchlets. Mature flower buds 3–5 mm long, caps shorter than the base. Outer row of stamens not producing pollen. Flowers Spring-Summer. Gumnuts 4-6 mm in diameter. Gumnuts that have dropped their seed have valves that are not very noticeable.
Hybridises with Eucalyptus dives and Eucalyptus macrorhyncha subsp. macrorhyncha.
The name Eucalyptus racemosa subsp. rossii as described in EUCLID is regarded as a synonym of Eucalyptus rossii by the Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (accessed 22 January, 2021).
All native plants on unleased land in the ACT are protected.
PlantNET description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Eucalyptus~rossii (accessed 22 January, 2021)
EUCLID description (as Eucalyptus racemosa subsp. rossii): https://apps.lucidcentral.org/euclid/text/entities/eucalyptus_racemosa_subsp._rossii.htm (accessed 22 January, 2021)
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