Eucalyptus ammophila

Eucalyptus ammophila is a mallee that grows to high, rarely a small, multistemmed tree, and forms a lignotuber. The trunk has rough, fibrous, greyish brown bark and the upper parts of the trunk and the branches have smooth greyish and orange to bronze-coloured bark. Young plants and coppice regrowth have square stems and broad lance-shaped to egg-shaped leaves that are long and wide with a short petiole. Adult leaves are lance-shaped, long and wide with a petiole long. Both sides of the leaf are the same dull green, although bluish green at first. The flowers are arranged in groups of between seven and eleven in leaf axils on a peduncle long, each flower on a pedicel about long. The mature flower buds are oval to spindle-shaped, yellow or cream-coloured, long and about wide. The operculum is cone-shaped and about long. The fruit is a hemispherical capsule long and wide with the four, sometimes five, strongly raised valves. ==Taxonomy and naming==

Eucalyptus ammophila was first formally described in 1994 by Ian Brooker and Andrew Slee from a specimen collected in the Maranoa region of Queensland, and the description was published in the journal Austrobaileya. ==Distribution and habitat==

The sandplain red gum grows on red or orange sandplains in central and southern Queensland, including areas near Charleville, Yalleroi Jericho and the White Mountains. ==See also==