Angophora melanoxylon
| Coolabah apple | |
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| Flowers and fruit of Angophora melanoxylon in the ANBG | |
Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Eudicots |
| Clade: | Rosids |
| Order: | Myrtales |
| Family: | Myrtaceae |
| Genus: | Angophora |
| Species: | A. melanoxylon
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| Binomial name | |
| Angophora melanoxylon | |
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| Occurrence data from AVH | |
| Synonyms[1] | |
Angophora melanoxylon, commonly known as Coolabah apple,[2] is a species of small to medium-sized tree that is endemic to eastern Australia. It has rough, fibrous bark on the trunk and branches, linear to narrow lance-shaped adult leaves, flower buds in groups of three or seven, white or creamy white flowers and cup-shaped, cylindrical or barrel-shaped fruit.
Description[edit]
Angophora melanoxylon is a tree that typically grows to a height of 15 m (49 ft) and forms a lignotuber. It has rough, fibrous, greyish bark on the trunk and branches. Young plants and coppice regrowth have sessile, lance-shaped, stem-clasping leaves that are 45–100 mm (1.8–3.9 in) long and 12–25 mm (0.47–0.98 in) wide and arranged in opposite pairs. Adult leaves are also arranged in opposite pairs, dull grey-green to green but paler on the lower surface, linear to narrow lance-shaped or narrow elliptical, 30–90 mm (1.2–3.5 in) long and 6–22 mm (0.24–0.87 in) wide either with a stem-clasping base or on a petiole up to 10 mm (0.39 in) long. The flower buds are arranged on the ends of branchlets on a branched peduncle 6–23 mm (0.24–0.91 in) long, each branch of the peduncle with three or seven buds on pedicels 3–9 mm (0.12–0.35 in) long. Mature buds are globe-shaped, 4–6 mm (0.16–0.24 in) long and 4–7 mm (0.16–0.28 in) wide with longitudinal ribs on the floral cup. The petals are white or creamy white with a green keel, 3–4 mm (0.12–0.16 in) long and wide. Flowering has been observed in December and the fruit is a woody cup-shaped, cylindrical or barrel-shaped capsule 8–13 mm (0.31–0.51 in) long and 7–11 mm (0.28–0.43 in) wide with the valves enclosed in the fruit.[2][3][4][5]
Taxonomy and naming[edit]
Angophora melanoxylon was first formally described in 1900 by Richard Thomas Baker in the Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales.[6][7]
Distribution and habitat[edit]
Coolabah apple grows in deep, sandy soils and occurs sporadically in dry areas between Pilliga, Coolabah and Bourke in New South Wales and Cunnamulla, Augathella and St George in Queensland.[2][3][4]
Conservation status[edit]
This eucalypt is classified as of "least concern" in Queensland under the Queensland Government Nature Conservation Act 1992.[8]
References[edit]
- ^ a b "Angophora melanoxylon". Australian Plant Census. Retrieved 9 March 2020.
- ^ a b c Chippendale, George M. "Angophora melanoxylon". Australian Biological Resources Study, Department of Agriculture, Water and the Environment, Canberra. Retrieved 9 March 2020.
- ^ a b "Angophora melanoxylon". Euclid: Centre for Australian National Biodiversity Research. Retrieved 5 June 2020.
- ^ a b Hill, Ken. "Angophora melanoxylon". Royal Botanic Garden Sydney. Retrieved 9 March 2020.
- ^ "Angophora melanoxylon". WetlandInfo. Queensland Government. Retrieved 27 November 2016.
- ^ "Angophora melanoxylon". APNI. Retrieved 9 March 2020.
- ^ Baker, Richard T. (1900). "On a new species of Angophora". Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales. 25 (1): 84–86. doi:10.5962/bhl.part.12150. Retrieved 9 March 2020.
- ^ "Species profile—Angophora melanoxylon". Queensland Government Department of Environment and Science. Retrieved 9 March 2020.