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Alice Springs FloraAlice Springs Flora Index Acacia ligulata Annual Yellowtop Bougainvillea Apple Bush Burdekin Plum Carob Tree (Ceratonia siliqa) Cattle Bush Desert Cotton (Aerva javanica) Desert Oak Eremophila Wildberry Feijoa sellowiana Flannel Cudweed Fork-leaf Corkwood Ghost Gum Golden Everlasting Kurrajong Lemon-flowered Gum MacDonnell’s Desert Fuchsia Native Bluebell Native Tomato Needlewood Olive Tree Perennial Yellow Top Rat’s Tail River Red Gum Inland River Red Gum Rosy Dock Round-leaved Mallee Scurvy Grass Silky Eremophila Stemodia viscosa Striped Mintbush Sturt’s Desert Pea Sturt’s Desert Rose Tangled Leschenaultia Tar Vine Weeping Bottlebrush White Cedar Yellow Billybutton Yellow-keeled Swainsona Yellow Oleander
— see Eucalyptus Index
The Round-leaved Mallee (Eucalyptus orbifolia), also known as the Disc Leaf Mallee is from the family Myrtaceae and is endemic to inland Australia. It is a mallee tree with rough bark, oval shaped leaves, yellow flowers and conical fruit.
The adult leaves are grey-green and oval-shaped, between 25 to 40 mm in length and 15 to 40 mm wide. The inflorescence is 20 to 25 mm in diameter, with yellow flowers and conical fruit.
A mallee or tree that grows from 2.5 to 8 metres in height. The tree has distinctive rough minni ritchi bark, reddish brown in colour and which peels and curls outwards. Like most mallees, it has multiple stems.
The flowers are popular with many insects including ants and bees.
- Scientific classification
- Kingdom: Plantae
- Phylum: Charophyta
- Class: Equisetopsida
- Subclass: Magnoliidae
- Superorder: Rosanae
- Order: Myrtales
- Family: Myrtaceae
- Genus: Eucalyptus
- Species: Eucalyptus orbifolia
Footnote & References
- Many thanks to Karlee Foster for ID of the Eucalypt species, member of Bee Aware of Your Native Bees (Australia), Facebook group, https://www.facebook.com/groups/beeawareofyournativebees/
- Eucalyptus orbifolia F.Muell., Disc Leaf Mallee, Atlas of Living Australia, https://bie.ala.org.au/species/Eucalyptus orbifolia
- Eucalyptus orbifolia, Australian Native Plants Society (Australia), https://anpsa.org.au/plant_profiles/eucalyptus-orbifolia/
Alice Springs FloraAlice Springs Flora Index Acacia ligulata Annual Yellowtop Bougainvillea Apple Bush Burdekin Plum Carob Tree (Ceratonia siliqa) Cattle Bush Desert Cotton (Aerva javanica) Desert Oak Eremophila Wildberry Feijoa sellowiana Flannel Cudweed Fork-leaf Corkwood Ghost Gum Golden Everlasting Kurrajong Lemon-flowered Gum MacDonnell’s Desert Fuchsia Native Bluebell Native Tomato Needlewood Olive Tree Perennial Yellow Top Rat’s Tail River Red Gum Inland River Red Gum Rosy Dock Round-leaved Mallee Scurvy Grass Silky Eremophila Stemodia viscosa Striped Mintbush Sturt’s Desert Pea Sturt’s Desert Rose Tangled Leschenaultia Tar Vine Weeping Bottlebrush White Cedar Yellow Billybutton Yellow-keeled Swainsona Yellow Oleander
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