Corymbia eximia
| Yellow bloodwood | |
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| Yellow bloodwood at Arcadia, Australia | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| (unranked): | Angiosperms |
| (unranked): | Eudicots |
| (unranked): | Rosids |
| Order: | Myrtales |
| Family: | Myrtaceae |
| Genus: | Corymbia |
| Species: | C. eximia |
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Corymbia eximia (Schauer) K.D.Hill & L.A.S.Johnson |
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| Synonyms | |
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Eucalyptus eximia Schauer |
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Eucalyptus eximia Schauer
Corymbia eximia, commonly known as the yellow bloodwood, is a bloodwood native to New South Wales. It occurs around the Sydney Basin often in high rainfall areas on shallow sandstone soils on plateaux or escarpments, in fire prone areas. Growing as a gnarled tree to 20 m (66 ft), it is recognisable by its distinctive yellow-brown tessellated bark. The greyish green leaves are thick and veiny, and lanceolate spear- or sickle-shaped. The cream flowerheads grow in panicles in groups of seven and appear in spring. Known for many years as Eucalyptus eximia, the yellow bloodwood was transferred into the new genus Corymbia in 1995 when it was erected by Ken Hill and Lawrie Johnson. It is still seen under the earlier name in some works.
First collected near the Grose River by Robert Brown and Ferdinand Bauer between September and October 1803, the yellow bloodwood was described as Eucalyptus eximia by German botanist Johannes Conrad Schauer in 1843. The species name is derived from the Latin adjective eximius "exceptional" or "uncommon", and might related to the distinctive and unusual appearance of either the bark or flowers of the tree. In 1995, the Eucalyptus genus was split into three genera by Ken Hill and Lawrie Johnson of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Sydney, with E. eximia transferred into Corymbia. Hill and Johnson classified it in the section Ochraria along with eleven other species, this group known as "yellow bloodwoods". A combined analysis of nuclear rDNA (ETS + ITS) and morphological characters published in 2009 found this group to be monophyletic, and it was renamed section Naviculares within the subgenus Blakella (the name originally coined by Maiden in 1929 as Eucalyptus series Naviculares), with C. eximia as the type species.
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