Red eucalyptus (Eucalyptus pellita)

Red eucalyptus or red mahogany (Eucalyptus pellita) is a species of plant in the Myrtaceae, medium to tall tree, growing up to 40 meters tall cylindrical trunk, bark is rough or fibrous or flaky, dark red or grayish or brown in color.

E. pellita has green, glossy leaves on the upper side, broad lance-shaped to egg-shaped, 100-230 mm long, 30-65 mm wide and tapering to the stalk.

Flower buds are arranged in leaf axils on flat, unbranched stalks, 12-32 mm long and individual buds on stalks 6-7 mm long. Mature shoots are oval, 15-16 mm long and 9-10 mm wide with a conical or beaked operculum.

The fruit is woody, cup-shaped to capsule or conical, 6-11 mm long and 8-14 mm wide with the valve protruding strongly above the edge. This tree grows in open forests, especially on gentle slopes, in wet or dry areas, nearshore forests and lowlands.

TAXON

Kingdom: Plantae
Phylum: Tracheophyta
Subphylum: Angiospermae
Class: Magnoliopsida
Order: Myrtales
Family: Myrtaceae
Subfamily: Myrtoideae
Tribe: Eucalypteae
Genus: Eucalyptus L'Hér. in Sert. Angl.: 18 (1789)
Subgenus: Symphyomyrtus
Section: Latoangulatae
Species: Eucalyptus pellita F.Muell. in Fragm. 4: 159 (1864)

HOMOTYPIC SYNONYMS

Eucalyptus resinifera var. pellita (F.Muell.) F.M.Bailey in Syn. Queensl. Fl.: 179 (1883)

HETEROTYPIC SYNONYMS

Eucalyptus resinifera var. spectabilis (F.Muell.) F.M.Bailey in Syn. Queensl. Fl.: 179 (1883)
Eucalyptus spectabilis F.Muell. in Fragm. 5: 45 (1865)

PUBLICATIONS

Govaerts, R. (2003). World Checklist of Selected Plant Families Database in ACCESS: 1-216203. The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.

Govaerts, R., Sobral, N., Ashton, P., Barrie, F., Holst, B.K., Landrum, L.L., Matsumoto, K., Fernanda Mazine, F., Nic Lughadha, E., Proença, C. & al. (2008). World Checklist of Myrtaceae: 1-455. Kew Publishing, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.

Wu, Z., Raven, P.H. & Hong, D. (eds.) (2007). Flora of China 13: 1-548. Missouri Botanical Garden Press, St. Louis.

VERNACULAR NAME

English: Red eucalyptus, Wuli tree, Large-fruited red mahogany
Indonesia: Ekaliptus merah, Pohon wuli
Java: Wuli, kayu wuli

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