Myrtaceae Juss.
Eucalyptus leucoxylon F.Muell. , legitimate, scientific
Mueller, F.J.H. von (1855), Description of fifty new Australian plants, chiefly from the colony of Victoria. Transactions and Proceedings of the Victorian Institute for the Advancement of Science 1: 33-34 BHL [tax. nov.]
  • Type: "In grassy plains from the Avoca to St. Vincent's and Spencer's Gulf."
  • Comment: See paper by O.Seberg, Taxon 35: 262-271 (1986), which discusses the date of publication of Mueller's preprint.
Bentham, G. (5 January 1867), Orders XLVIII. Myrtaceae- LXII. Compositae. Flora Australiensis 3: 209-210 [secondary reference]
taxonomic synonym: Eucalyptus sideroxylon Benth. nom. inval., pro syn.
Mueller, F.J.H. von (1882), Systematic Census of Australian Plants: 57 [secondary reference]
Dixon, W.A. (1906), The Plants of New South Wales: 134 [secondary reference]
common name: Red Ironbark [n/a]
Maiden, J.H. (November 1910), A Critical Revision of the Genus Eucalyptus 2(2): 88-94, pl. 56 BHL [secondary reference]
taxonomic synonym: Eucalyptus gracilipes Naudin legitimate
Bailey, F.M. (1913), Comprehensive Catalogue of Queensland Plants: 193 [secondary reference]
Grimwade, R. (1920), An anthography of the eucalypts: pl. 34 [secondary reference]
common name: White Ironbark [n/a] common name: Yellow Gum [n/a]
Maiden, J.H. (1922), A Critical Revision of the Genus Eucalyptus 6(4): pl. 220 [secondary reference]
Ewart, A.J. (1925), Handbook of Forest Trees for Victorian Foresters: 349-351, Pl. CLXXIII [secondary reference]
common name: Yellow Gum [n/a] common name: White Ironbark [n/a]
Black, J.M. (December 1926), Meliaceae - Scrophulariaceae. Flora of South Australia 3: 423, Fig. 173, C, N-O [secondary reference]
common name: Blue Gum [n/a]
Grimwade, R. (1930), An anthography of the eucalypts Edn. 2: pl. 73 [secondary reference]
common name: Yandert [n/a] common name: Yellow Gum [n/a]
Black, J.M. (1952), Flora of South Australia Edn. 2, 3: 622, Figs 818, C, N-O, 831 [secondary reference]
common name: Blue Gum [n/a]
Willis, J.H. (15 July 1967), Typification of eight Victorian species names in Eucalyptus. Muelleria 1(3): 167 BHL [secondary reference]
  • Lectotype: 1. "Towards the apex of St. Vincent's Gulf", South Australia. F. Mueller, 7 Nov. 1851 (MEL n. 10393)."
Hall, N., Johnston, R.D. & Chippendale, G.M. (1970), Forest Trees of Australia: 260-261 [secondary reference]
Boland, D.J. & Brooker, M.I.H. (1975), Forest Tree Series 187: [unnumbered page] [secondary reference]
Boland, D.J. (April 1979), A taxonomic revision of Eucalyptus leucoxylon F.Muell. Australian Forest Research 9(1): 65-72 [secondary reference]
Cunningham, G.M., Mulham, W.E., Milthorpe, P.L. & Leigh, J.H. (1981), Plants of Western New South Wales: 521, 523, Fig. 55f [secondary reference]
common name: South Australian Blue Gum [n/a] common name: White Ironbark [n/a] common name: Yellow Gum [n/a]
Jacobs, S.W.L. & Pickard, J. (1981), Plants of New South Wales: 159 [secondary reference]
taxonomic synonym: Eucalyptus leucoxylon var. pruinosa F.Muell. ex Miq. legitimate
Chippendale, G.M. in George, A.S. (ed.) (27 June 1988), Eucalyptus. Flora of Australia 19: 421-422 [secondary reference]
Robson, Peter J. (1993), Checklist of Australian Trees: alphabetical listings of common and scientific names: - [secondary reference]
common name: Yellow Gum [n/a] common name: White Ironbark [n/a] common name: Water Gum [n/a] common name: South Australian Blue Gum [n/a] common name: Small fruited Yellow Gum [n/a] common name: Red flowered Yellow Gum [n/a] common name: Large fruited Yellow Gum [n/a] common name: Large fruited Blue Gum [n/a] common name: Inland Blue Gum [n/a] common name: Blue Gum [n/a]
Brooker, M.I.H. & Slee, A.V. in Walsh, N.G. & Entwisle, T.J. (ed.) (1996), Eucalyptus. Flora of Victoria 3: 991 [secondary reference]
common name: Yellow Gum [n/a]
Brooker, M.I.H., Connors, J.R. & Slee, A.V. (2000), EUCLID: Eucalypts of south-eastern Australia Edn. Revised: - [secondary reference]
common name: Yellow gum [n/a] common name: White ironbark [n/a] common name: Blue gum [n/a]
Brooker, M.I.H. (28 February 2000), A new classification of the genus Eucalyptus L'Her. (Myrtaceae). Australian Systematic Botany 13(1): 122 APC [secondary reference]
  • APC Comment: A cultivated reputed hybrid with E. leucoxylon as one parent is the basis of E. jugalis Naudin (Pryor & Johnson, 1971; Chippendale, 1988). A reputed hybrid E. leucoxylon x E. odorata is the basis of E. odorata var. macrocarpa Blakely (Pryor & Johnson, 1971; Chippendale, 1988).
  • APC Dist.: SA, NSW, Vic (native and doubtfully naturalised)