Eucalyptus goniocalyx

taxobox
name = Long-leaved box

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image_caption = "Eucalyptus goniocalyx", Melbourne
regnum = Plantae
unranked_divisio = Angiosperms
unranked_classis = Eudicots
unranked_ordo = Rosids
ordo = Myrtales
familia = Myrtaceae
genus = "Eucalyptus"
species = "E. goniocalyx"
binomial = "Eucalyptus goniocalyx"
binomial_authority = |

"Eucalyptus goniocalyx", Long-leaved box is a small to medium-sized tree with rough and persistent bark to the small branches. It is fibrous, greyish, becoming deeply fissured, thick and shaggy in larger trees. Adult leaves are stalked, lanceolate to 20 x 3 cm, concolorous and green.

White flowers appear in early autumn to mid winter.

Distribution occurs widely on the tablelands of New South Wales and in Victoria west almost to the South Australian border. In South Australia from the Mount Lofty Ranges to the Flinders Ranges. [Brooker, M.I.H. & Kleinig, D.A. Field Guide to Eucalyptus, Bloomings, Melbourne 2001]

The leaves are distilled for the production of cineole based eucalyptus oil. [Boland, D.J., Brophy, J.J., and A.P.N. House, "Eucalyptus Leaf Oils", 1991, ISBN 0-909605-69-6]

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