Muelleria 37: 39–64 Published online in advance of the print edition, Tuesday 2 October Eucalyptus wimmerensis revisited and notes on the morphologies and taxonomies of five Victorian mallee-boxes K. Rule Associate of the Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria, Birdwood Avenue, Melbourne, Victoria 3004.
[email protected] Introduction Abstract Taxa previously regarded as mallee-boxes were included in the Series Four new subspecies of Eucalyptus Subbuxeales Blakely (1934). Various taxonomists and commentators, wimmerensis (subsp. arapilensis, subsp. pallida, subsp. parviformis and for example, Chippendale (1988), Brooker & Slee (1997), Nicolle (1997) subsp. grata) and a new subspecies and (2006) and Rule (2004) have maintained this classification. However, of E. polybractea (subsp. subcerea) are Brooker (2000), in his revision of the genus, discarded the series and described. Their affinities, ecologies, assigned the mallee-boxes to the Supraspecies Moluccanae within distributions and conservation statuses the Series Buxeales. Rule (2012) noted that Brooker’s construct was are discussed. In all cases the new taxa are regarded as rare and threatened. In an aggregation of morphologically diverse taxa and opted to define a addition, notes are provided that clarify narrower, informal complex of species which possess specific, shared the morphologies and taxonomies of features. This informal collective, here referred to as the Eucalyptus odorata five Victorian mallee-boxes, namely E. Complex, is further used to accommodate the new taxa described below. silvestris, E. hawkeri, E. yarriambiack, E. Such shared features include a mallee or a small, tree-like habit, adult walshii and E. filiformis which are related leaves with mostly irregular island glands, inflorescences that are simple to or confused with E.