Eucalyptus dendromorpha

Eucalyptus dendromorpha is a tree that typically grows to a height of but sometimes to , and forms a lignotuber. It has rough, compacted scaly, flaky or short-fibrous bark on the base of the trunk, smooth grey or white bark above, the smooth bark often with insect scribbles. Young plants and coppice regrowth have elliptic leaves that are glossy green but paler on the lower surface, long and wide. Adult leaves are the same glossy green on both sides, lance-shaped to curved, long and wide on a petiole long. The flower buds are arranged in leaf axils in groups of seven, nine or eleven, on an unbranched peduncle long, the individual buds on a pedicel long. Mature flower buds are oval to club-shaped, long and wide with a conical to rounded operculum with a small point on the tip. Flowering mainly occurs in December and January and the flowers are white. The fruit is a woody cup-shaped or barrel-shaped capsule long and wide on a pedicel long and with the valves enclosed below the rim of the fruit. ==Taxonomy and naming==

Budawang ash was first formally described in 1941 by William Blakely from a specimen collected by Richard Hind Cambage in West Albion Park near MacquariePass. Blakely gave it the name Eucalyptus obtusiflora var. dendromorpha and published the description in The Australian Naturalist. In 1972 Lawrie Johnson and Donald Blaxell raised the variety to species status as E. dendromorpha. The specific epithet (dendromorpha) is derived from the Ancient Greek words dendron meaning "tree" and morphe meaning "form" or "shape", referring to the habit of this species, compared to the mallee E. obtusiflora. This species is similar to the white ash, but has differently coloured juvenile leaves and seeds. ==Distribution and habitat==

Eucalyptus dendromorpha grows in forest on the ranges south from Mount Tomah in the Blue Mountains to Monga near Braidwood. ==References==