Eucalyptus oraria
Eucalyptus oraria, commonly known as ooragmandee, is a species of mallee  that is endemic to coastal and near-coastal areas of Western Australia. It has smooth greyish bark, sometimes with rough, flaky bark on the base of the trunk, lance-shaped adult leaves, flower buds in groups of nine or more, white flowers and barrel-shaped fruit. Description
Eucalyptus oraria is a mallee, rarely a tree or low shrub that typically grows to a height of  and forms a lignotuber. It has smooth, greyish bark that is shed in strips, sometimes with rough, flaky bark on the base of the trunk. Young plants and coppice regrowth have dull green, egg-shaped to lance-shaped leaves that are  long and  wide. Adult leaves are the same shade of glossy 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 between nine and nineteen or more on an unbranched peduncle  long, the individual buds on pedicels  long. Mature buds are oval,  long and  wide with a rounded operculum. Flowering mainly occurs from August to October and the flowers are white. The fruit is a woody, barrel-shaped capsule with the valves below the level of the rim. Taxonomy and naming
Eucalyptus oraria was first formally described in 1962 by Lawrie Johnson from specimens he collected near Dongara in 1960. The specific epithet (oraria) is from the Latin orarius meaning "pertaining to the coast". Distribution and habitat
Ooragmandee grows in sand in coastal and near-coastal areas, often over limestone and is found from near Jurien Bay to near Kalbarri and on some nearby offshore islands. See also
List of Eucalyptus species

References

Eucalypts of Western Australia
oraria
Myrtales of Australia
Mallees (habit)
Plants described in 1962
Taxa named by Lawrence Alexander Sidney Johnson