Journal of the Department of Agriculture, Western Australia, Series 4 Volume 2 Number 7 July, 1961 Article 11 1-1-1961 Trees of Western Australia. 87. Eucalyptus kruseana F. Muell. 88. Eucalyptus macrandra F. Muell. ex. Benth. 89. Mallalie. 90. The rose mallee (Eucalyptus rhodantha Blakely and Steedman) Charles Austin Gardner Follow this and additional works at: https://researchlibrary.agric.wa.gov.au/journal_agriculture4 Part of the Biodiversity Commons, Forest Biology Commons, and the Genetics Commons Recommended Citation Gardner, Charles Austin (1961) "Trees of Western Australia. 87. Eucalyptus kruseana F. Muell. 88. Eucalyptus macrandra F. Muell. ex. Benth. 89. Mallalie. 90. The rose mallee (Eucalyptus rhodantha Blakely and Steedman)," Journal of the Department of Agriculture, Western Australia, Series 4: Vol. 2 : No. 7 , Article 11. Available at: https://researchlibrary.agric.wa.gov.au/journal_agriculture4/vol2/iss7/11 This article is brought to you for free and open access by Research Library. It has been accepted for inclusion in Journal of the Department of Agriculture, Western Australia, Series 4 by an authorized administrator of Research Library. For more information, please contact [email protected]. EUCALYPTUS KRUSEANA F. MUELL. A—Branchlet with leaves and flower-buds; B—Branchlet with leaves and fruits; C—Anthers; D—Fruit tn longi­ tudinal section (enlarged), eight miles north from Karonle (J. H. Frank); E and F—Twigs with leaves, flower- buds and fruits from near Lake Cowan (G. E. Brockway), a form with larger stalked leaves (E. brachyphylla C. A. Gardn.) 578 Journal of Agriculture, Vol 2 No 7, 1961 TREES of UUedtern ^rudtralLa By C. A. GARDNER No. 87—EUCALYPTUS KRUSEANA spreading branches densely foliaged with F. MUELL. circular grey-green or grey stalkless leaves which more or less embrace the branch at their bases, or are almost npHIS very decorative shrub was described kidney-shaped. This type of leaf is not -•• by Baron von Mueller in the Australian common in Eucalyptus, and this feature Journal of Pharmacy in 1895 from speci­ together with their small size, renders the mens collected in the Fraser Range, which species at once distinctive. The bark of lies some distance eastwards from Norse­ the main stem is much like those of some man. It remained little known until it other species of Eucalyptus which inhabit was again collected by Henry Deane, con­ the stony outcrops of the arid interior, Eucalyptus cruris, E. orbifolia, E. Ewar- sulting engineer for the trans-Australian tiana E. Websteriana and a form of E. railway in May, 1909, from one area seen Drummondii. It is a peculiar bark in that between 50 and 150 miles eastwards from the outer layers, reddish-brown or cin­ Kalgoorlie. Deane's specimen was named namon coloured, separate from the pale Eucalyptus Morrisoni by Maiden, who was green inner bark in long strips with rolled apparently unaware of Mueller's earlier edges, thus exposing longitudinal rows of description. Since then it has been col­ the pale green inner bark. It is curious lected from eight miles north from Kar- that this type of bark should be charac­ onie, and from near Lake Cowan. The teristic of those species which inhabit species appears, therefore, to be found in granitic or lateritic outcrops. The flowers a few isolated spots eastwards from Kal­ are yellow in colour in umbels which goorlie and Norseman. exceed the leaves in length, and are quite attractive although not very large. With­ out any close affinities, this plant can at Eucalyptus Kruseana appears to have once be recognised by its small crowded no distinctive common name and would grey leaves and unusual habit of growth. be best called Kruse's Mallee, after its dis­ In recent years the species has attained coverer. The name "Bookleaf mallee" some popularity locally as a decorative which has a certain use is without shrub, growing well in the light sand of tangible meaning. the west coastal regions, but it is equally The plant is described as a shrub six to at home in the clay soils of the interior, 10 feet tall, but under cultivation it attains and is suitable for garden planting a height of 12 to 15 feet with usually a throughout the agricultural districts at single stem and more or less horizontally least as far south as Bruce Rock. 579 Journal of Agriculture, Vol 2 No 7, 1961 C.A GawWr One i»cK May i9e< EUCALYPTUS MACRANDRA F. MUELL. EX BENTH. A—Branchlet with flower-buds and leaves; B—Flower-bud (enlarged); C—Anthers; D—Branchlet with fruits' E—Fruit (enlarged); F—The same In longitudinal section. Hamersley River, Gardner, January, 1935 580 Journal of Agriculture, Vol 2 No 7, 1961 No. 88 the umbel together with the narrow- rimmed fruit with included obtuse valves. EUCALYPTUS MACRANDRA The leaves are relatively large, rather F. MUELL. EX BENTH. thick and lustrous, and particular notice should be paid to the shape of the fruit, rpHIS species is of southern distribution, together with the nature of the valves ••- extending from the Stirling Range in and their position. A comparison should also be made with No. 81 (Eucalyptus the west and eastwards as far as the eremophila)—a mallee with olivaceous Phillips River where it is found in sandy leaves, a different disc and valves, and loamy soils, usually in depressions or on non - glandular filaments. Eucalyptus the banks of streams. It is most common Stowardii (No. 80) has ribbed buds and along the Fitzgerald River and its tribu­ the fruits are sharp exserted valves. Although in its natural habitat it taries. favours the banks of streams and depres­ sions, it has proved hardy in cultivation Originally collected by George Maxwell in the drier districts. Mr. Edward Gardner in this general area of distribution it was raised the tree from seeds in the Tammin named by Mueller, but published by district, where it attained a height of 15 Bentham in 1867 in the Flora Austra- feet in less than five years, and it flowered liensis. The name is derived from two very freely. The filaments are yellow. The Greek words makros long, and ander plant should be of interest to the apicul- (andra), a man, in reference to the long turist, having many of the features of the stamens—the stamens being the male yate, but of more rapid growth and free organs of the flower. It thus received the flowering. It flowers from January to vernacular name of "Long-flowered mar- March. lock" from Blakely, but the name is in­ appropriate, firstly because the flowers are no longer than a number of other species, especially the Yate and its relatives (of which this is one) and because it is not No. 89—"MALLALIE" a marlock. The name marlock has been (Eucalyptus eudesmioides F. Muell^ proposed for those species of Eucalyptus which are shrubby but not mallees, i.e., npHE names "Desert Gum" or "Desert which do not possess woody stock-like -•- Mallee" sometimes given to this bases from which a number of stems arise, species are not applicable, for the species these being mallees. As a matter of fact there is rarely such a distinction in the does not occur in the arid interior. The shrubby species of Eucalyptus, and as name "Desert Gum" should be reserved previously remarked in this series, the for Eucalyptus gongylocarpa which is in­ mallee form of growth is frequently if not deed a tree of the desert. usually the result of circumstances affect­ ing the growth of the plant, amongst Eucalyptus eudesmioides is a mallee, or which fire is an important factor. The very rarely attains the proportions and bushman would call Eucalyptus mac- stature of a small tree. The first speci­ randra a Yate of some sort, and the name mens to be named were collected by A. River Yate would not be inappropriate. It Oldfield and P. Walcott on the sandplains does in fact belong to that group of species of the lower Murchison River and at which includes the Moitch, the Yates, the Mount Curious which lies immediately Mallets and the Moort—the Coruntae, in north of this river. The range of the which the stamens are erect (not in­ species as known at present extends from curved) in the horn-like bud-cap. about half way between Northampton and The principal characteristics of this Shark Bay in the north, to Walebing and species are the long narrow horn-like Piawaning in the south, whilst to the east bud caps, the stalked buds and fruits, the we find it as far inland as Perenjori and flattened common flower-stalk (peduncle) Eradu, as a small bushy mallee with an and the numerous (up to 16) flowers in average stature of about six or eight feet 581 Journal of Agriculture, Vol 2 No 7, 1961 C.A. Ganhw 13 v («* "MAIXALIE" (Eucalyptus eudesmioides F. Muell> A—Branchlet with leaves and flower-buds; B—Branchlet with leaves, flower-buds and fruits; C—Leaf; D—Flower- bud (enlarged); E—Flower (enlarged); F—Anthers, Mlngenew, Gardner 690; G—Fruits; H—Fruit (enlarged); I—The same In longitudinal section, Waleblng, Gardner; K—Fruit (enlarged); L—The same In section. Hill River, T. N. Stoate 22 582 Journal of Agriculture, Vol 2 No 7, 1961 with a pale pink, or yellowish-pink bark, No. 90—THE ROSE MALLEE the outer bark shedding in dark grey plates. The leaves are opposite, usually (Eucalptus rhodantha Blakely and glaucous and thin, and distinctly stalked, Steedmanj but in the northern extremity of its range we find mallees with deep green larger T^ORMERLY looked upon as a variety of and quite lustrous leaves.