Eucalyptus erosa

Eucalyptus erosa is a tree that typically grows to a height of and forms a lignotuber. It has rough, fibrous to stringy, grey bark on the trunk and branches. Young plants and coppice regrowth have narrow lance-shaped, to egg-shaped leaves long, wide and are a much darker green on one side. Adult leaves are arranged alternately, the same shade of green on both sides, lance-shaped to curved, long and wide on a petiole long. The flower buds are arranged in groups of nine, eleven or thirteen in leaf axils on an unbranched peduncle long, the individual buds on a pedicel long. Mature buds are oval, long and wide with a conical to rounded operculum with a small point on the top. Flowering has been recorded in May and the flowers are white. The fruit is a woody, cup-shaped to hemispherical capsule long and wide with the valves level with the rim. ==Taxonomy and naming==

Eucalyptus erosa was first described in 2005 by Anthony Bean from a specimen he collected in the Maranoa district in 1981 and the description was published in the journal Austrobaileya. The specific epithet (erosa) is a Latin word meaning "eaten away", "gnawed" or "nibbled", referring to the edges of the adult leaves. ==Distribution and habitat==

This eucalypt grows in sandy soils derived from sandstone and is only known from the Mt Moffatt section of the Carnarvon National Park and an adjacent grazing property. ==References==