Vascular Plants Australian Plant Name Index (APNI)

Showing Eucalyptus gittinsii
Myrtaceae Juss.
Eucalyptus gittinsii Brooker & Blaxell , legitimate, scientific
Brooker, M.I.H. & Blaxell, D.F. (7 February 1978), Five new species of Eucalyptus from Western Australia. Nuytsia 2(4): 228-231, Figs 5, 6 (map) BHL [tax. nov.]
  • Type: "67 km south of 'Billabong Roadhouse', Wannoo Highway 1, Western Australia (27°30′S, 114°45′E) 9 Oct. 1975, D.F.Blaxell W75/113 (holo: NSW; iso: K, FRI, PERTH)."
  • Etymology: "The species is named for its first collector (at least, to our knowledge), C. H. Gittins, a retired engineer from Epping in Sydney, who has visited many out-of-the-way regions of Australia over the past ten years or so, and who has carefully and meticulously collected many specimens for the National Herbarium of New South Wales and other institutions."
Green, J.W. (1985), Census of the Vascular Plants of Western Australia Edn. 2: 125 [secondary reference]
Chippendale, G.M. in George, A.S. (ed.) (27 June 1988), Eucalyptus. Flora of Australia 19: 110-111, Fig. 49, Map 68 [secondary reference]
Robson, Peter J. (1993), Checklist of Australian Trees: alphabetical listings of common and scientific names: - [secondary reference]
common name: Northern Sandplain Mallee [n/a]
Brooker, M.I.H. (28 February 2000), A new classification of the genus Eucalyptus L'Her. (Myrtaceae). Australian Systematic Botany 13(1): 91 [secondary reference]
Nicolle, D. (1 August 2000), Three new taxa of Eucalyptus subgenus Eudesmia (Myrtaceae) from Queensland and Western Australia. Nuytsia 13(2): 319 APC [secondary reference]
  • APC Dist.: WA