Eucalyptus lansdowneana

Red-flowered mallee box
Eucalyptus lansdowneana, Melbourne
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
(unranked):	Angiosperms
(unranked):	Eudicots
(unranked):	Rosids
Order:	Myrtales
Family:	Myrtaceae
Genus:	Eucalyptus
Species:	E. lansdowneana
Binomial name
Eucalyptus lansdowneana
E. lansdowneana, field distribution

Eucalyptus lansdowneana, commonly known as the Crimson mallee^[1] or the Red-Flowered mallee box, is a slender stemmed, straggly mallee with smooth grey over creamy-white bark. Adult leaves are stalked, lanceolate to broad lanceolate, to 15 x 3 cm, glossy, green to yellow-green.

Red and pinkish-red flowers appear in late winter to mid spring.

Distribution is limited to the rocky hills of the Gawler Range, Eyre Peninsula, South Australia .

The name lansdowneana was previously also applied to another species of lower Eyre Peninsula and Kangaroo Island; this is the distantly mallee species, E. albopurpurea, with white, pink or mauve flowers^[2] and which is grown widely as an ornamental, particularly in Perth. The true E. lansdowneana is a beautiful, slender mallee with large, glossy leaves and red flowers.^[3]

References

1. Dean Nicolle. "Native Eucalypts of South Australia". Retrieved 23 October 2016.
2. Nicolle, Dean (2000). "New Taxa of Eucalyptus Informal Subgenus Symphyomyrtus (Myrtaceae), Endemic to South Australia" (PDF). Journal of the Adelaide Botanic Garden. 19: 83–94. Retrieved 21 March 2015.
3. Brooker, M.I.H. & Kleinig, D.A. Field Guide to Eucalyptus, Bloomings, Melbourne 2001