dnicolle's Identifications

Sawpit Gully Lookout, White Mountains National Park.

This would be placed under E. mediocris in AVH. But there is total confusion between this name and acmenoides in north Queensland.

AVH records show these two entities overlapping enormously. But there is only one entity, at least close to the coast, which is being placed under these two names by different identifiers and herbaria.

This inland entity in White Mountains National Park is barely different from what I know as E. acmenoides on the coastal ranges. The leaves might be a bit narrower, bluer or more concolorous, but it is hardly different enough to be called a separate species.

It is interesting that AVH still accepts E. mediocris, as does iNat / POWO, but rejects E. portuensis, which was split off from E. acmenoides at the same time.

~7km west of Bremer Bay.

I have considered the possibility of this being E. tetraptera, E. brandiana or E. sweedmaniana.

But it has to be E. erythrandra - a reasonably widespread entity of hybrid origin between E. tetraptera and E. angulosa, which is stabilising as a species.

This is indicated by the pale flowers, which are considerably smaller than E. tetraptera and a good intermediate in size and stamen colour between tetraptera and angulosa.

There was also just the one plant, which is typical for hybrids.

But it is very strongly four-sided and smooth-textured, which is just like E. tetraptera and not at all like angulosa. But then, hybrids are not necessarily good intermediates in all characters.