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Showing Eucalyptus x forthiana
- APC
- Plantae(reg.)
- Charophyta(div.)
- Equisetopsida(cl.)
- Magnoliidae(subcl.)
- Rosanae(superordo)
- Myrtales(ordo)
- Myrtaceae(fam.)
- Eucalyptus(gen.)
- forthiana(sp.)
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Type: "N.S.W.;– Lower Monkerai P. Forth, and W.F. Blakely 22/3/1938, the type."
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Etymology: "Named in honour of the discoverer, the late Mr. Percy Forth, Apiarist, Lower Monkerai. Mr. Forth was a keen tree observer and he possessed the natural gift of distinguishing the various species of Eucalypts in the field as accurately as a trained botanist."
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APC Comment: A putative hybrid involving Eucalyptus moluccana x E. siderophloia.
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Text: "Reputed hybrid between E. moluccana and E. siderophloia, fide L.D.Pryor & L.A.S.Johnson, op. cit. 70 [i.e. L.D.Pryor & L.A.S.Johnson, A Classification of the Eucalypts: 70 (1971)]."