Eucalyptus redimiculifera

Eucalyptus redimiculifera is a species of tree that is endemic to a small area in Western Australia. It has smooth bark, lance-shaped adult leaves, flower buds in groups of seven, white flowers and oval fruit.

Description

Eucalyptus redimiculifera is a tree that typically grows to a height of and forms a lignotuber. It has smooth white to grey or pink bark that is shed in long ribbons. Young plants and coppice regrowth have broadly lance-shaped leaves that are up to and wide on a petiole up to long. Adult leaves are lance-shaped, dull to slightly glossy, and wide on a slightly channelled petiole long. The flower buds are arranged in leaf axils in groups of seven on an unbranched peduncle long, the individual buds on pedicels long. Mature buds are oval, and about wide with a hemispherical operculum. The fruit is a woody, oval capsule and wide with the valves protruding but easily broken.

Taxonomy and naming

Eucalyptus redimiculifera was first formally described in 2001 by Lawrie Johnson and Ken Hill in the journal Telopea from material collected about north of Norseman in 1983. The specific epithet is from the Latin redimiculum meaning a "band" or "fetter" and -fer meaning "-bearing", referring to the shed bark encircling the smaller branches.

Distribution and habitat

This eucalypt is locally abundant in open woodland in a scattered population near Norseman.