Eucalyptus argutifolia
Eucalyptus argutifolia, commonly known as Wabling Hill mallee or Yanchep mallee, is a mallee that is endemic to the south-west of Western Australia. It is a rare species with smooth bark, lance-shaped adult leaves, flower buds arranged in groups of seven or nine, white flowers and cylindrical to conical cup-shaped fruit.
Description
Eucalyptus argutifolia is a mallee that grows to a height of about with smooth grey or pale copper-coloured bark. Leaves on young plants and on coppice regrowth are egg-shaped to more or less round, long, wide, glossy green and have a petiole. Adult leaves are lance-shaped, long and wide on a petiole long. The adult leaves are the same glossy green on both sides. Leaves intermediate between juvenile and adult are also usually present. The flower buds are arranged in groups of seven or nine on a thick peduncle long, the individual buds on a pedicel up to long or absent. Mature buds are oval, long and wide with a rounded operculum and about the same width as the floral cup. The flowers are white and appear in the autumn and are followed by fruit that are cylindrical to conical or cup-shaped, long and wide.Taxonomy
Eucalyptus argutifolia was first formally described in 1992 by Peter Grayling and Ian Brooker from a specimen that was collected at Parrot Ridge near Yanchep in 1987. The description was published in the journal Nuytsia. The specific epithet is derived from the Latin words argutus meaning "clear", "bright" or "sharp" and folium meaning "leaf", referring to the shiny adult leaves of this species.It is placed in the Eucalyptus sub-genus Symphyomyrtus, section Dumaria, series Rufispermae.