Indicative distribution
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Scientific name: Eucalyptus leucoxylon subsp. pruinosa
Gazetted date:
16 Feb 2007
Profile last updated:
16 Aug 2018
Description
Boland Yellow Gum is a small to medium-sized tree growing to about 20 m high. It has dark, rough-scaly bark at the base (rarely higher); the rest is smooth, grey, mottled yellow or white and bluish-grey, deciduous, shedding in oval patches above. The adult leaves are alternate, narrow to broadly lanceolate, 4-7 cm long 3-3.5 cm wide, stalked. The juvenile leaves are opposite, sessile and heart-shaped, pruinose (bluish green or grey) with a white surface wax. Flowers are whitish, borne in clusters of 3, each cluster on a drooping slightly flattened common stalk. Flowering winter (May) to summer (December). Buds are 1.2 cm long and 0.7 cm wide, the cap conical to beaked, as long or longer than the base. The fruit are ovoid, flattened on top, 1.7 cm long and 1.6 cm in diameter, on a slender short stalk, the valves deeply enclosed.
Distribution
Restricted to several small areas between Barham and Euston. This species is not known from any protected area within NSW, though some remnants occur within State Forests along the Murray River, particularly within Campbells Island and Euston SFs.
Habitat and ecology
- Eucalyptus leucoxylon subsp. pruinosa is a tree species which, in New South Wales, occurs at the bases of sandy rises and on loamy clay flats on the floodplains of the Murray River and its tributaries in the Riverina Bioregion.
Regional distribution and habitat
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Threats
- Clearing, degradation and fragmentation of remnants for agricultural development including dryland and irrigated cropping.
- Heavy grazing restricts the potential for recruitment
- Weed Invasion
- Disturbance of remnants close to road edges.
- Collection of fallen woody debris in the guise of ‘cleaning up’.
- Salinity has the potential to be a long term risk for low-lying stands.
Recovery strategies
A Saving Our Species conservation project is currently being developed for this species and will be available soon. For information on how you can contribute to this species' recovery, see the Activities to assist this species section below.
Activities to assist this species
- Manage stock to reduce grazing pressure in high quality remnants (i.e. those with high flora diversity or fauna habitat).
- Undertake control of rabbits, hares, foxes, pigs and goats (using methods that do not disturb the native plants and animals of the remnant).
- Undertake weed control (taking care to spray or dig out only target species).
- Encourage regeneration by fencing remnants, controlling stock grazing and undertaking supplementary planting, if necessary.
- Do not harvest firewood from remnants (this includes living or standing dead trees and fallen material).
- Leave fallen timber on the ground.
- Erect on site markers to alert road maintenance staff to the presence of a high quality remnant patches.
- Address landscape issues such as salinity, for the benefit of threatened species and landscape as a whole.
Information sources
- Benson, J.S., Allen, C.B., Togher, C. and Lemmon, J. (2006) New South Wales Vegetation Classification and Assessment: Part 1 Plant communities of the NSW Western Plains. Cunninghamia 9(3): 383-450
- Brooker, M. and Kleinig, D.A. (1999) Field guide to eucalypts, Volume 1: South-eastern Australia. 2nd edn. Blooming Books, Hawthorn.
- Costermans L. (2005) Native Trees and Shrubs of South-Eastern Australia. 2nd Edition. Reed New Holland, Sydney.
- Cunningham, G.M., Mulham, W.E., Milthorpe, P.L. and Leigh, J.H. (1992) Plants of Western New South Wales. (Inkata Press, Sydney)
- Hill, K.D. (2002) Eucalyptus. In Harden, G.J. (ed.) Flora of New South Wales. Volume 2. Revised Edition. (New South Wales University Press: Sydney).
- Horner, G., McNellie. M., Nott. T.A., Vanzella, B., Scleib, M., Kordas, G.S., Tuner, B. and Hudspth, T.J. (2002) Native vegetation map report series No. 2. Dry lake, Oxley, Hay, One Tree, Moggumbill and Gunbar 1:100 000 map sheets. NSW Department of Land and Water Conservation, Parramatta
- McNellie, M., Horner, G., Nott, T.A., Vanzella, B., Scleibs, M., Kordas, G.S., Tuner, B., Hudspth,T.J. (2005) Native vegetation maps and site data for the Deniliquin 1:250 000 map sheet. Unpubl. data. NSW Department of Natural Resources, Parramatta.
- Porteners, M.F. (1993) The natural vegetation of the Hay Plain: Booligal-Hay and Deniliquin-Bendigo 1:250 000 maps. Cunninghamia 3(1): 1-122
- Sluiter, I.R.K., Minchin, P.R. and Jaensch, S.C. (1997) The buloke and pine woodlands of semi-arid and dry sub-humid Victoria and nearby areas. (Ogyris, Birdwoodton)
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