- Eucalyptus youngiana
taxobox
name = Large-fruited Mallee
regnum =Plantae
unranked_divisio =Angiosperm s
unranked_classis =Eudicot s
unranked_ordo =Rosid s
ordo =Myrtales
familia =Myrtaceae
genus = "Eucalyptus "
species = "E. youngiana"
binomial = "Eucalyptus youngiana"
binomial_authority = F.Muell.|"Eucalyptus youngiana", commonly known as Large-fruited Mallee, Ooldea Mallee and Yarldarlba,cite web | title = Australian Plant Common Names Database | url = http://www.anbg.gov.au/common.names/ | accessdate = 2007-04-12] is a gum tree that occurs in arid and semi-arid areas of southern
Western Australia andSouth Australia .Description
"E. youngiana" grows as a mallee from four to ten metres high, with rough, flaky bark and red or yellow flowers from June to October.FloraBase | name = Eucalyptus salubris | id = 5803]
Taxonomy
The species was first published in 1876 by
Ferdinand von Mueller ,APNI | name = Eucalyptus youngiana F.Muell. | id = 38545] based on specimens collected atQueen Victoria Spring byJess Young during theGiles expedition of May 1875 .cite book | first = Norman | last = Hall | year = 1978 | title = Botanists of the Eucalypts | location = Australia | publisher =Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization | id=ISBN 0643002715] The specific name honours Young.There are no subspecies or varieties. In 1969
Clifford Boomsma demoted it to a subspecies of "E. pyriformis", but this was overturned byIan Brooker in 2000.Distribution and habitat
It has a fairly wide distribution, occurring throughout arid and semi-arid areas of Western Australia and South Australia. The relief is generally gentle slopes. It grows in red sands and sandy loams.
References
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