Eucalyptus pterocarpa

Eucalyptus pterocarpa is a mallet or a tree that typically grows to a height of but does not form a lignotuber. It has smooth, light grey over salmon grey bark that is shed in long ribbons. Young plants and coppice regrowth have stems that are square in cross-section, and leaves that are egg-shaped to lance-shaped, long, wide and petiolate. Adult leaves are arranged alternately, the same shade of glossy green on both sides, lance-shaped, long and wide tapering to a petiole long. The flower buds are arranged in leaf axils, usually in groups of seven, on an unbranched peduncle long, the individual buds on pedicels long. Mature buds are ribbed, spindle-shaped to oval, long and wide with a prominently ribbed and beaked operculum. Flowering has been observed in October and the flowers are white. The fruit is a woody, ribbed, conical or cup-shaped capsule long and wide with the valves near rim level. ==Taxonomy==

Eucalyptus pterocarpa was first formally described in 1988 by Peter Lang in Flora of Australia from material collected by George Chippendale north-west of Norseman in 1967. ==Distribution and habitat==

This eucalypt grows in flat areas in forest and on the margins of creeks and streams between Kalgoorlie and Norseman where it grows in red-brown sandy-loam soils. ==Conservation status==

This species is classified as "Priority Three" by the Government of Western Australia Department of Parks and Wildlife ==See also==