Subspecies of eucalyptus
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Eucalyptus pauciflora" subsp. "acerina, commonly known as snow gum, is a mallee or small tree that is endemic to a small area of Victoria, Australia. It has smooth, shiny bark, glossy green lance-shaped to egg-shaped leaves, flower buds in groups of between nine and fifteen, white flowers and hemispherical or conical fruit. It differs from other subspecies of "E. pauciflora" in having a dense crown and no parts that are glaucous.
Description.
"Eucalyptus pauciflora" subsp. "acerina" is a mallee or tree that typically grows to a height of and forms a lignotuber. It has smooth, shiny, white, cream-coloured, grey and green bark that is shed in ribbons. Young plants and coppice regrowth have dull bluish green, egg-shaped to elliptic leaves that are long and wide and petiolate. Adult leaves are egg-shaped to lance-shaped or elliptical, long and wide on a petiole long. The flower buds are arranged in leaf axils in groups of between nine and fifteen on an unbranched peduncle long, the individual buds on pedicels up to long. Mature buds are oval to pear-shaped, about long and wide with a rounded operculum. Flowering has been recorded in January and the flowers are white. The fruit is a woody hemispherical or conical capsule long and wide with the valves near rim level. Subspecies "acerina" differs from others in the species in having a dense crown and no glaucous parts.
Taxonomy and naming.
"Eucalyptus pauciflora" subsp. "acerina" was first formally described in 1994 by Kevin James Rule in the journal "Muelleria", from material collected on Mount Erica in Baw Baw National Park. The epithet ("acerina") is from Latin, referring to the absence of surface wax on adult plants.
Distribution and habitat.
This subspecies is only known from the Baw Baw plateau and the nearby Mount Useful.
References.
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