Eucalyptus herbertiana
| Yellow-barked mallee | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Eudicots |
| Clade: | Rosids |
| Order: | Myrtales |
| Family: | Myrtaceae |
| Genus: | Eucalyptus |
| Species: | E. herbertiana |
| Binomial name | |
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Eucalyptus herbertiana Maiden |
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Eucalyptus herbertiana, commonly known as yellow-barked mallee or the Kalumburu gum, is a mallee that is native to northern Western Australia and the Northern Territory.
The tree typically grows to a height of 4 to 10 metres (13 to 33 ft) and has smooth powdery white bark with salmon coloured new bark and forming a lignotuber. It blooms in January producing white cream flowers. The duu green to grey green leaf blades are concolorous with a narrow lanceolate or lanceolate shape approximately 62 to 160 millimetres (2.44 to 6.30 in) in length with a width of 8 to 33 mm (0.31 to 1.30 in). It is deciduous during the later dry season. The axillary unbranched inflorescences have peduncles that are 0.3 to 1.4 centimetres (0.12 to 0.55 in) long with 7 buds per umbel.
The species was first formally described by the botanist Joseph Maiden in 1923 as part of the work A Critical Revision of the Genus Eucalyptus. The name honours Australian botanist Desmond Herbert.E. herbertiana belongs to a small group of species closely related to the red gums, it is most closely related to E. cupularis and E. gregoriensis.
Found growing amongst sandstone outcrops, hillsides and at the bases of ridges in the Kimberley region of Western Australia in skeletal soils. The range of the plant extends across the top end of the Northern Territory and into western Queensland.
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