Mount Beerwah mallee | |
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Conservation status
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Vulnerable (EPBC Act) | |
Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Plantae |
Clade: | Tracheophytes |
Clade: | Angiosperms |
Clade: | Eudicots |
Clade: | Rosids |
Order: | Myrtales |
Family: | Myrtaceae |
Genus: | Eucalyptus |
Species: | E. kabiana
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Binomial name | |
Eucalyptus kabiana L.A.S.Johnson & K.D.Hill[1]
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Eucalyptus kabiana, commonly known as Mt Beerwah mallee,[2] is a species of mallee, rarely a small tree, that is endemic to Queensland. It has smooth white to grey bark, sometimes with a short stocking of rough, fibrous bark at the base. The adult leaves are lance-shaped or curved, the flower buds are arranged in groups of between seven and eleven, the flowers are white and the fruit is hemispherical with protruding valves.