Angophora woodsiana, commonly known as smudgee,[1] is a species of small to medium-sized tree that is endemic to eastern Australia. It has rough bark on the trunk and branches, lance-shaped or curved adult leaves, flower buds in groups of three or seven, white or creamy white flowers and ribbed, cup-shaped fruit.
Angophora woodsiana is a tree that typically grows to a height of and forms a lignotuber. It has rough, fibrous grey or brownish bark on the trunk and branches. Young plants and coppice regrowth have egg-shaped to lance-shaped leaves that are long and wide and arranged in opposite pairs. Adult leaves are also arranged in opposite pairs, glossy green but paler on the lower surface, lance-shaped or curved, long and wide, tapering to a petiole long. The flowers are arranged on the ends of branchlets on a branched peduncle long, each branch of the peduncle with three or seven buds on pedicels long. Mature buds are globe-shaped, long and wide with a ribbed floral cup. The petals are white or creamy white with a green keel, long and wide. Flowering occurs in December and January and the fruit is a cup-shaped capsule long and wide with the valves enclosed in the fruit.[2] [3]
Angophora woodsiana was first formally described in 1881 by Frederick Manson Bailey in the journal Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales. The specific epithet (woodsiana) honours "the Rev. J. E. Tenison-Woods, F.G.S., President of the Linnean Society, New South Wales".[4] [5] Genetic analysis shows it to be closely related to broad-leaved sandstone apple (Angophora robur).[6]
Smudgee grows in sandy soil on sandstone hills in forest from Tin Can Bay in Queensland to Coffs Harbour in New South Wales and sporadically on the Darling Downs.
This eucalypt is classified as of "least concern" in Queensland under the Queensland Government Nature Conservation Act 1992.[7]