Eucalyptus praetermissa

Eucalyptus praetermissa is a species of mallet that is endemic to a small area on the south coast of Western Australia. It has smooth bark, lance-shaped adult leaves, flower buds in groups of up to fifteen, creamy white to pale yellow flowers and cylindrical to barrel-shaped fruit.

Description
Eucalyptus praetermissa is a mallet that typically grows to a height of  but does not form a lignotuber. Young plants have egg-shaped leaves that are  long and  wide and petiolate. Adult leaves are arranged alternately, the same shade of dull green on both sides, lance-shaped,  long and  wide, tapering to a petiole  long. The flower buds are arranged in leaf axils in groups of up to fifteen on an unbranched peduncle  long, the individual buds on pedicels  long. Mature buds are spindle-shaped,  long and  wide with an elongated, conical operculum about twice as long as the floral cup. Flowering occurs from November to January and the flowers are creamy white to pale yellow. The fruit is a woody, cylindrical to barrel-shaped capsule  long and  wide with the valves near rim level.

Taxonomy
Eucalyptus praetermissa was first formally described in 1991 by Ian Brooker and Stephen Hopper from a specimen collected by Brooker on the north side of Beaufort Inlet in 1984.

Distribution and habitat
This eucalypt is only known from the type location where it grows in low woodland on sand over laterite.

Conservation status
This mallet is classified as "Priority Four" by the Government of Western Australia Department of Parks and Wildlife, meaning that is rare or near threatened.

See also
List of Eucalyptus species

References

Category:Rosids of Western Australia
Category:Trees of Australia
praetermissa
Category:Myrtales of Australia
Category:Plants described in 1991
Category:Taxa named by Ian Brooker
Category:Taxa named by Stephen Hopper