Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Eucalyptus saxatilis
Common name
Suggan Buggan mallee, Mt Wheeler mallee
Family
Myrtaceae
Where found
Woodland on rocky sites. Kosciuszko National Park. Tablelands west of Bombala.
Notes
Tree or mallee to 10 m tall. Bark smooth, slightly powdery, shedding in ribbons. Bark sometimes rough on the lower trunk. Juvenile stems rounded in cross section, usually glaucous. Juvenile leaves stalkless, opposite each other for many pairs, 1–4 cm long, 10–40 mm wide, glaucous. Adult leaves alternating up the stems, 5.8–20 cm long, 7–20 mm wide, dull, blue-green to blue-grey. Mature flower buds 6–12 mm long, caps much shorter than the base. Flowers white, with 0 petals. Flowers in 3s. Flowers autumn-winter. Gumnuts 8–14 mm in diameter. Gumnuts that have dropped their seed have valves slightly protruding.
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=10313 (accessed 21 April 2021)
PlantNET description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Eucalyptus~saxatilis (accessed 21 April 2021)
EUCLID description: https://apps.lucidcentral.org/euclid/text/entities/eucalyptus_saxatilis.htm (accessed 21 April 2021)
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