Eucalyptus lansdowneana

Red-flowered mallee box

Eucalyptus lansdowneana, Melbourne

Kingdom:	Plantae
Division:	Magnoliophyta
Class:	Magnoliopsida
Order:	Myrtales
Family:	Myrtaceae
Genus:	Eucalyptus
Species:	E. Melbourne ( is the second most populous city in Australia, with a Metropolitan area population of approximately 3 Plants are living Organisms belonging to the kingdom Plantae. The flowering plants or angiosperms ( Angiospermae or Magnoliophyta) are the most widespread group Magnoliopsida is the Botanical name for a class of Flowering plants By definition the class will include the family Magnoliaceae, but its The Myrtales are an order of Flowering plants placed as a basal group within the rosid group of Dicotyledons (not a member of eurosids I or eurosids II The Myrtaceae or Myrtle family are a family of Dicotyledon Plants placed within the order Myrtales. Eucalyptus (From Greek ευκάλυπτος meaning "well covered" is a diverse Genus of Trees (and a few shrubs the members of which lansdowneana

Binomial name

Eucalyptus lansdowneana

E. lansdowneana, field distribution

Eucalyptus lansdowneana, Red-Flowered mallee box is a slender stemmed, straggly mallee with smooth grey over creamy-white bark. Adult leaves are stalked, lanceolate to broad lanceolate, to 15 x 3 cm, glossy, green to yellow-green.

Red and pinkish-red flowers appear in late winter to mid spring.

Distribution is limited to the rocky hills of the Gawler Range, Eyre Peninsula, South Australia . The Gawler Ranges are a range of mountains in South Australia to the north of Eyre Peninsula. Eyre Peninsula is a triangular Peninsula in South Australia. It is bounded on the east by Spencer Gulf, the west by the Great Australian Bight South Australia is a state of Australia in the southern central part of the country

The name lansdowneana was incorrectly applied to another species of lower Eyre Peninsula and Kangaroo Island; this is the unrelated box species, E. Eyre Peninsula is a triangular Peninsula in South Australia. It is bounded on the east by Spencer Gulf, the west by the Great Australian Bight Kangaroo Island is Australia 's third largest Island - after Tasmania and Melville Island. lansdowneana subsp. albopurpurea, with white, pink or mauve flowers and which is grown widely as an ornamental, particularly in Perth. Perth is the capital and largest city of the Australian state of Western Australia. The true E. lansdowneana is a beautiful, slender mallee with large, glossy leaves and red flowers. ^[1]

References

^ Brooker, M. I. H. & Kleinig, D. A. Field Guide to Eucalyptus, Bloomings, Melbourne 2001