Eucalyptus broviniensis
Eucalyptus broviniensis is a species of small tree that is endemic to a small area in Queensland. It has smooth bark, lance-shaped adult leaves, flower buds arranged in groups of seven, white flowers and conical fruit.
Description
Eucalyptus broviniensis is a tree that typically grows to a height of about and forms a lignotuber. It has smooth bark, pale orange when new but fades to grey. Young plants and coppice regrowth have egg-shaped leaves arranged alternately, long, wide and have a petiole. Adult leaves are lance-shaped, long, wide on a petiole long and are the same dull green colour on both sides. The flowers are borne in groups of seven in leaf axils on an unbranched peduncle long, the individual buds on a pedicel up to long. Mature buds are oval to spherical, long and about wide with a rounded operculum long. Flowering occurs in summer and the flowers are white. The fruit is a woody conical capsule long and wide with the valves extending above the rim.
Taxonomy and naming
Eucalyptus broviniensis was first formally described in 2001 by Anthony Bean from a specimen collected near Brovinia and the description was published in the journal Austrobaileya. The specific epithet refers to the type location. The ending -ensis is a Latin suffix "denoting place", "locality" or "country".
Distribution and habitat
This eucalypt grows in heath and woodland with a heathy understorey, on the edges of a plateau in the Brovinia State Forest.