Indicative distribution
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Scientific name: Eucalyptus parvula
Gazetted date:
11 Dec 2009
Profile last updated:
24 Jul 2023
Description
The Small-leaved Gum is a readily recognisable small tree, often of woodland form with a dense rounded crown. Most trees only produce juvenile and intermediate leaves, which are small and lance-shaped and characteristically occur in opposite pairs. The bark is smooth and mottled greyish brown and orange in clour. The shed bark often hangs in strips from the lower trunk and branches. Buds and fruit are small (fruit less than 5 mm in diameter), stalkless, and borne in clusters of up to seven. Small-leaved Gum closely resembles at a distance the more common Black Sally (E. stellulata).
Distribution
This species has a very small distribution in the eastern edge of the Monaro, in a narrow 100km strip from Big Badja Mountain (north-east of Cooma) to Nunnock Swamp in South-East Forests National Park, north-east of Bombala.
Habitat and ecology
- Grows at and above an elevation of 1100 m in acidic soil on cold wet grassy flats.
Regional distribution and habitat
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Threats
- Grazing by domestic animals often prevents recruitment on private land.
- Plants on road edges may be affected by road maintenance work.
- Severe dieback has been observed on some plants following heavy pruning, undertaken as part of a seed-collecting activity.
- Habitat damage by feral pigs is becoming an increasing threat. Deer are also a potential threat.
- Most sites are on private land. Some current and future owners may not be particularly sympathetic to the protection of the species.
- Blackberry is known to be invading habitat within part of the species' range.
Recovery strategies
Priority actions are the specific, practical things that must be done to recover a threatened species, population or ecological
community. The Office of Environment and Heritage has identified
4 priority actions
to help recover the Small-leaved Gum in New South Wales.
Activities to assist this species
- Exclude grazing from stands of Small-leaved Gum until seedlings are large enough to be immune from grazing.
- Work with State Forests to protect plants on edge of New Line Road.
- Investigate illegal collection of propagation material if damage to accessible trees becomes great.
Information sources
- Brooker, M. and Kleinig, D.A. (1999) Field guide to eucalypts, Volume 1: South-eastern Australia. 2nd edn. Blooming Books, Hawthorn.
- Costermans L. (1981) Native Trees and Shrubs of South-Eastern Australia. Rigby, Melbourne.
- Harden, G.J. (ed.) (2002) Flora of New South Wales. Volume 2, Revised Edition. UNSW, Sydney.
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