Eucalyptus provecta is a species of small tree that is endemic to Queensland. It has rough, fibrous to flaky bark on the trunk and branches, lance-shaped adult leaves, flower buds in groups of seven on the ends of branchlets, white flowers and cup-shaped fruit.
Eucalyptus provecta is a tree, rarely a mallee, that typically grows to a height of and forms a lignotuber. It has rough, grey, fibrous to flaky bark on the trunk and branches. Young plants and coppice regrowth have dull, greyish green, egg-shaped to lance-shaped leaves that are long and wide. Adult leaves are the same shade of dull green on both sides, lance-shaped to narrow lance-shaped, long and wide, tapering to a petiole long. The flower buds are arranged on the ends of branchlets in groups of seven on a branched peduncle long, the individual buds on pedicels long. Mature buds are oval, long and wide with a rounded operculum. Flowering has been recorded in January, May, June, July and October and the flowers are white. The fruit is a woody, cup-shaped capsule long and wide with the valves usually below the rim level.[1] [2]
Eucalyptus provecta was first formally described in 2000 by Anthony Bean in the journal Austrobaileya from material collected near Forsayth in 1997.[3] The specific epithet (provecta) is from the Latin word provectus meaning "advanced", "carried forward" or "extended", referring to the rough bark extending to the branches.
This tree occurs in far north Queensland from the Bulleringa National Park to Chuddleigh Park station north of Hughenden.
This eucalypt is classified as "least concern" under the Queensland Government Nature Conservation Act 1992.[4]