Eucalyptus ophitica

Eucalyptus ophitica is a tree that typically grows to a height of and forms a lignotuber. Young plants and coppice regrowth have dull green, egg-shaped to lance-shaped leaves that are long and wide. Adult leaves are the same shade of green on both sides, lance-shaped, long and wide, tapering to a petiole long. The flower buds are arranged in leaf axils in groups of seven on a peduncle long, the individual buds on pedicels long. Mature buds are club-shaped to more or less cylindrical, long and wide with a rounded operculum. The flowers are white and the fruit is a woody, cup-shaped, conical or hemispherical capsule long and wide with the valves protruding above the rim. ==Taxonomy and naming==

Eucalyptus ophitica was first formally described in 1990 by Lawrie Johnson and Ken Hill in the journal Telopea from specimens collected near Baryulgil in 1984. The specific epithet (ophitica) is from the Greek ophites, meaning "serpentine" (rock), referring to the rocks where the species is found. ==Distribution and habitat==

Serpentine ironbark grows in grassy woodland on hilly serpentine outcrops in the Upper Clarence. ==References==