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(Last Modified On 4/5/2012)
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Acceptance
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Accepted
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(Last Modified On 4/5/2012)
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Contributor Text:
ABDUL GHAFOOR
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Contributor Institution:
Don McNair Herbarium, School of Environmental and Life Sciences, The University of Newcastle, Callaghan, NSW-2308, Australia E-mail:abdul.ghafour@newcastle.edu.au; artemisiella89@gmail.com
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Synonym Text:
E. rostrata Schldl. in Linnaea 20: 655. 1847, nom. Illeg. non Cav. 1797; R. R. Stewart, Ann. Cat. Vasc. Pl. W. Pak. & Kashm. 503. 1971; Bailey, Stand. Cycl. Hort. 1: 1158. 1947; R. Parker, For. Fl. Punj. 251. 1956.
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Flower/Fruit:
Fl. Per.: all year around
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Type:
Holotype: Cultivated at Camalduli gardens, Naples, Italy, F. Dehnhardt s. n. (W).
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Distribution:
Widely distributed in Australia, extensively planted in many parts of world including Indo-Pakistan subcontinent.
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Comment/Acknowledgements:
Vern.: Red River Gum (Engl.),
Safeda, Sufaida, Lachi The tree is considered as suitable for waterlogged and saline wastelands and is grown from Peshawar to Karachi, used as wind breakers, provides excellent firewood and good charcoal. The wood is hard, strong and durable and can be used for heavy construction, railway sleepers, flooring, plywood, chipboard, fencing and paper pulp. The flowers are very good source of nectar for honey bees.
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Map Location:
C-6 Peshawar, Pakistan Forest Research Institue, tree, c. 5 m tall, fls. greenish yellow, March ’85, A. R. Beg s. n. (KUH); C-7 Rawalpindi Dist.: Ayub National Park, cult. tree, c. 80 ft high, flowers white, 14.3.67, Saida Qureshi s. n. (KUH); Ibid, 10.3.69, Saida Qureshi s. n. (KUH); Ibid, tree, sandy-loam soil, yellowish-white fls 7.12.69 M. Qaiser 239 (KUH);Wah Gardens, 28.11.84 A. Ghafoor 942 (KUH); Near Satellite Town Rawalpindi, Fls. white, 18.10.78, M. Qaiser 7004 (KUH); D-8 Lahore Dist.; Changa Manga, 7.11.71, A. R. Beg s. n (PPFI); F-5 Sukkur Dist.: ACC residential area, Rohri, 1.3.85, Rizwan & Adnan Yousuf 71 & 72 (KUH); Near Municipal Stadium, Sukkur, cult. tree, upto 6 m tall, fls. whitish-yellowish, 20.3.85, Rizwan & Adnan Yousuf 79 (KUH); G-4 Karachi University Campus, cult. tree, c. 20 m tall, 10.10.2009, Sher Wali & A. Ghafoor s. n. (KUH); Near Biological Research Centre, KU Campus, Tree, c. 10 m tall with drooping shoots, Fruits in bunches of (4-)5 (-6), grown for shade, 26.2.1991, A.Ghafoor 5261 (KUH); University of Karachi Campus, sandy-loam soil, tree c. 8 m tall, planted, fruits present, 28.6.1991, A. Ghafoor 5261 (KUH); Institute of Chemistry, K. U. Campus, 16.2.85, Abrar Hussain s. n. (KUH); Karachi, Lal Kothi, main Drigh Road (Shahrah-e-Faisal), 1.4.87, Abrar Hussain s. n. (KUH); Karachi, c. 8 m tall, fls. Whitish, 1.1.84, Saood Omer s. n. (KUH).
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Commonly up to 20 m tall trees with 5 – 10 m broad crown and spreading branches bearing drooping branchlets. Bark rough, basal stocking with irregular longitudinal grey to black scales, smooth above on main trunk and branches, cream to white, shedding in strips or irregular flakes. Leaves lanceolate to narrowly lanceolate, 8 – 30 x 0. 7 – 2 cm, dull or slightly glossy, greyish-green to blue green, concolorous. Inflorescence simple, axillary, 7 to 11-flowered umbels on 1 – 2 cm long, angular, slender peduncles. Pedicels slender, 2 – 10 mm long. Flowers pale white, 10 – 15 mm across. Buds subglobular or ovoid-conical, 5 – 9 mm long, with hemispherical, rostrate or conical, 3 – 5 x 2.5 – 4 mm, obtuse calyptra; hypanthium hemispherical, 2 – 3 x 3 – 4 (-5 ) mm. Fruits ovoid or hemispherical to ± globose, 3 – 6 x 3 – 8 mm; disc broad, ascending; valves (3-) 4 (-5), strongly exserted. Seeds cuboid, yellow to yellow-brown.
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