Common name: White Bloodwood
Corymbia trachyphloia (F.Muell.) K.D.Hill & L.A.S.Johnson APNI* Synonyms: Eucalyptus trachyphloia f. fruticosa F.M.Bailey APNI*
Description: Tree to 25 m high; bark persistent, pale brown or yellow-brown, tessellated.
Juvenile leaves disjunct, elliptic to ovate, glossy green, peltate at early stages, with simple hairs. Adult leaves disjunct, narrow-lanceolate, 7–12 cm long, 1–1.5 cm wide, green or grey-green, glossy, discolorous, penniveined.
Conflorescence compound; umbellasters 7-flowered; peduncle narrowly flattened or angular, 5–13 mm long; pedicels terete, 2–6 mm long. Buds clavate to pyriform, 4–5 mm long, 2–3 mm diam., scar absent; calyptra patelliform (slightly beaked), shorter and narrower than hypanthium.
Fruit urceolate, smooth, 6–10 mm long, 5–8 mm diam.; disc depressed; valves enclosed.
Distribution and occurrence: Locally abundant but sporadic, in dry sclerophyll woodland on shallow infertile soils on sandstone, granite or acid volcanics; north from Goulburn R.
NSW subdivisions: NC, NWS, CWS, NWP
Other Australian states: Qld
Text by K.D. Hill
Taxon concept:
| | Key to the subspecies | |
| 1 | Adult leaves with stomates on the lower surface only; | subsp. trachyphloia |
| Adult leaves with stomates on both surfaces; | subsp. amphistomatica |
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