Eucalyptus persistens is a species of small tree that is endemic to Queensland. It has rough, dark grey bark, lance-shaped adult leaves, flower buds in groups of seven, white flowers and cup-shaped or barrel-shaped fruit.
Eucalyptus persistens is a species of tree, rarely a mallee, that typically grows to a height of and forms a lignotuber. It has rough, dark grey bark on the trunk and branches. Young plants and coppice regrowth have dull, bluish, linear to narrow lance-shaped leaves that are long and wide. Adult leaves are lance-shaped, the same shade of green on both sides, long and wide, tapering to a petiole long. The flower buds are mostly arranged on the ends of branchlets on a branched peduncle in groups of seven. The peduncles are long, the individual buds on pedicels long. Mature buds are oval to pear-shaped, long and wide with a conical, rounded or beaked operculum. Flowering occurs between April and October and the flowers are white. The fruit is a woody, cup-shaped or barrel-shaped capsule, long and wide with the valves near rim level.[1] [2]
Eucalyptus persistens was first formally described in 1991 by Lawrie Johnson and Ken Hill in the journal Telopea, from material they collected in 1984.[3] The specific epithet (persistens) is from Latin, meaning "persisting", referring to the outer operculum and rough bark.
This tree occurs in north-eastern Queensland between Laura, Mareeba, Hughenden, Forsayth and Marlborough.
This eucalypt is listed as "least concern" under the Queensland Government Nature Conservation Act 1992[4]