Common name: Monkey Gum, Monkey Grey Gum
Eucalyptus cypellocarpa L.A.S.Johnson APNI*
Description: Tree to 50 m high (sometimes 65); bark smooth, white, grey or yellow, shedding in long ribbons.
Juvenile leaves opposite, broad-lanceolate to elliptic to ovate, glossy green.
Adult leaves disjunct, lanceolate, 12–20 cm long, 1–2.5 cm wide, green, dull or semi-glossy, concolorous. Umbellasters 7-flowered; peduncle narrowly flattened or angular, 8–22 mm long; pedicels terete, 0–5 mm long. Buds ovoid, 9–12 mm long, 4–5 mm diam., scar present; calyptra conical or rostrate, shorter than and as wide as hypanthium, ± angular.
Fruit cylindrical or ovoid, 3 locular, ± angular, 5–10 mm long, 6–9 mm diam.; disc depressed; valves enclosed or rim-level.
Distribution and occurrence: Widespread and locally abundant in wet forest on deep fertile soils in sheltered valleys; south from Tamworth.
NSW subdivisions: CC, SC, NT, CT, ST, NWS, CWS
Other Australian states: Vic.
Text by K. Hill Taxon concept: Flora of NSW 2 (1991)
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