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Table 8. Published names in Series Obtusiflorae (accepted names in Bold type, taxonomic 
synomyms represented by nomenclatural synonyms represented by '='). 
E. obtusiflora DC., Prodr. 3: 220 (1828). 
E. dumosa A. Cunn. ex Oxley, J. Two Exped. 63 (1820); Schauer in Walp., Repert. Bot Syst 2• 925 
(1843). 
E. lamprocarpa F. Muell. ex Miq., Ned. Kruidk. Arch. 4: 129 (1856); = E. dumosa. 
E. muelleri Miq., Ned. Kruidk. Arch. 4: 130 (1856); = E. dumosa. 
E. dumosa A. Cunn. ex Schauer var. conglobata R. Br. ex Benth., FI. Austral. 3: 230 (1867); = E. conglobata. 
E. incrassata Labill. var. dumosa (A. Cunn. ex Schauer) F. Muell., Eucalyptographia, Dec. 5 (1879-1884); 
s E. dumosa. 
E. incrassata Labill. var. conglobata (R. Br. ex Benth.) Maiden, Crit. Revis. Eucalyptus 1: 100 (1904); = 
E. conglobata. 
E. striaticalyx W.V. Fitzg., J. Proc. Mueller Bot. Soc. Western Australia 1: 20 (1904). 
E. woodwardii Maiden, J. Nat. Hist. Sc. Soc. Western Australia 3: 2 (1910). 
E. goniantha Turcz. var. clelandii Maiden, Proc. Western Australian Nat. Hist. & Sc/. Soc. 3: 176 (1911); = 
E. clelandii. 
E. clelandii (Maiden) Maiden, Crit. Revis. Eucalyptus 2: 189 (1912). Plate 69, fig. 8. 
E. lesouefii Maiden, Crit. Revis. Eucalyptus 2: 187 (1914). 
E. sheathiana Maiden, J. Proc. Roy. Soc. New South Wales 49: 312 (1915). 
E. conglobata R. Br. ex Maiden, Crit. Revis. Eucalyptus 6: 273 (1922). 
E. kondininensis Maiden & Blakely, J & Proc. Roy. Soc. New South Wales 59: 189, (1925). 
E. dongarraensis Maiden & Blakely, J. & Proc. Roy. Soc. New South Wales 59: 184 (1925); s £ obtusiflora 
subsp. dongarraensis. 
E. pileata Blakely, Key Eucalypts, 120 (1934). 
£ conglobata (R. Br. ex Benth.) Maiden subsp. fraseri Brooker, Nuytsia, 1: 251 (1972). = £ fraseri 
E. fraseri (Brooker) Brooker, Australian Forest Res. 7: 65 (1976). 
E. cyanophylla Brooker, Trans. & Proc. Roy. Soc. South Australia 101(1): 15 (1977). 
E. georgei Brooker & Blaxell, Nuytsia 2(4): 224 (1978). 
E. calcareana Boomsma, J. Adelaide Bot. Gard. 1(6): 361 (1979). 
E. pterocarpa C. Gardner ex P. Lang, FI. Australia 19: 510 (1988). 
E. percostata Brooker & P. Lang, J. Adelaide Bot. Gard. 13: 65 (1990). 
E. cretata P. Lang & Brooker, J. Adelaide Bot. Gard. 13: 71 (1990). 
E. georgei subsp. fulgida Brooker & Flopper, Nuytsia 9: 47 (1993). 
E. tenuis Brooker & Hopper, Nuytsia 9: 48 (1993). 
E. polita Brooker & Hopper, Nuytsia 9: 51 (1993). 
Series Obtusiflorae 
Treated as series Rufispermne Maiden by Chippendale (1988) and Brooker (2000). 
Series distinguished as follows: seeds elliptical, dorsiventrally flattened, glossy red or 
red-brown, very shallowly regularly reticulate; hilum ventral, indistinct in colour. 
A large and complex series with over 50 constituent species, primarily Western 
Australian, but with a number of species in South Australia and a few species 
extending into New South Wales and Victoria. Further division into subseries is 
somewhat problematical, and is not attempted at this stage. 
The first species described in this series was £. obtusiflora DC., although confusion with 
the eastern Australian species £. obstans has existed since (see below). This was 
followed by E. dumosa, although the name E. dumosa had been published without 
description even earlier. £. dumosa has also been a confused concept for a long period. 
