Eucalyptus chapmaniana

Eucalyptus chapmaniana is a tree that typically grows to a height of and forms a lignotuber. The bark on most of the trunk is rough, fibrous and finely and grey or brown-grey and on the branches is smooth, light brown to pale grey, with long ribbons of shed bark. Young plants and copice regrowth have sessile egg-shaped to almost round leaves long and wide arranged in opposite pairs. Adult leaves are arranged alternately, lance-shaped to curved, long and wide on a petiole long. The flower buds are arranged in groups of three in leaf axils on an unbranched peduncle long, the individual buds on a pedicel long. Mature buds are club-shaped to diamond-shaped, long and wide with a conical to beaked operculum. Flowering occurs from January to March and the flowers are white. The fruit is a woody, conical or bell-shaped capsule long and wide. ==Taxonomy==

Eucalyptus chapmaniana was first formally described in 1947 by Alexander Kenneth Cameron from a specimen near Bogong and the description was published in The Victorian Naturalist. The specific epithet (chapmanii) honours Wilfrid Chapman (1891–1955), after he had drawn attention to the existence of this species. ==Distribution and habitat==

Bogong gum grows in wet forest and grassy or shrubby woodland, often on steep slopes, in cold mountains areas of Victoria and far southeastern New South Wales. In Victoria it occurs along the highest parts of the Great Dividing Range between Jamieson and Benambra and is also found on Mount Buffalo and Pine Mountain. In New South Wales it is only found south of Khancoban. ==Gallery==

Image:Eucalyptus Chapmaniana 5201.JPG|Eucalyptus chapmaniana in Kew Gardens Image:Eucalyptus chapmaniana Mt Buffalo.jpg|Eucalyptus chapmaniana on Mount Buffalo Image:Eucalyptus chapmaniana Bogong.jpg|Eucalyptus chapmaniana near Bogong ==References==