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This species occurs in open mallee shrubland with Triodia understorey on red sandy 
desert loam. 
Conservation status: not sufficiently known (K). 
The epithet is from the Latin infra, below, and corticatus, covered with bark, from the 
persistent bark over the lower trunk. 
Specimens examined: Western Australia: 8.6 km S of Queen Victoria Spring on Cundeelee track. 
Hill 2684B & Johnson, 30 Nov 1986 (NSW). 
The Eucalyptus konditiinensis complex 
There are four recognisable entities in this group. These could conservatively be 
treated as a single species, but this would take no account of differences in habitat and 
morphology (see Table 11). Three of the four were included in £. polita by Brooker and 
Hopper (1993), based solely on the bark differences from £. kondininensis. We here 
choose to treat them as four separate, although closely related, species. Three of the 
four occur in the undeveloped country east of Hyden, south of Southern Cross and 
west of the Coolgardie-Esperance road. They are consequently little-collected and 
poorly understood in the field. 
20. Eucalyptus kondininensis Maiden & Blakely, /. & Proc. Roy. Soc. New South Wales 
59: 189, (1925). 
Type citation: 'Collected at Kondinin, between Bendering and Gnarming, on loam flats 
forming open forest with E. salmonophloia and E. flocktoniae (C. A. Gardner, Nos. 1843 
and 1966).' 
Type: syn NSW; isosyn K (1966), MEL (1843), PERTH (1843 & 1966). 
Tree to 15 m tall. Bark smooth, pale grey with grey, brown and pink streaks, shedding 
in long ribbons, with a clearly defined scaly black persistent stocking to up to 4 m. 
Juvenile leaves disjunct, ovate, subglaucous. Adult leaves disjunct, narrow-lanceolate 
to lanceolate, strongly glossy, 5-12 cm long. 0.7-1.5 cm wide; petioles slightly 
channelled, 1.0-2.0 cm long; lateral veins indistinct, regular, at 30-40° to midrib; 
intramarginal vein indistinct, continuous, within 1 mm of margin. Inflorescences 
simple, axillary. Umbellasters 7-flowered. Peduncles angular, 4-10 mm long. Buds and 
fruits sessile or shortly pedicellate, pedicels to 2 mm long. Mature buds ovoid to 
fusiform, 6-8 mm long, c. 4 mm diam.; calyptra corneal, often distinctly apiculate, 
about as long as hypanthium, as wide as hypanthium, but slightly narrowed at 
junction, distinctly regularly ribbed; hypanthium indistinctly ribbed or smooth. Fruits 
cup-shaped to obconical, 3-4-locular, 4-6 mm long, 4-6 mm diam.; calyptra scar and 
stemonophore slightly raised, less than 0.5 mm wide; disc level or slightly depressed, 
ultimately incurved, c. 1 mm wide; valves broadly triangular, rim-level (Fig. 28). 
Diagnosed as follows: tree with a clearly defined black stocking of persistent bark; 
leaves glossy; buds and fruits not glaucous; fruits conical to cup-shaped, sessile or 
subsessile (see also Table 11). Fruits tend to be pedicellate and conical in the north of 
the range, becoming cup-shaped and sessile in the south. 
Known from the Kondinin district to Lake Magenta and Lake King (Fig. 29). 
Restricted to low sites on heavy pale grey calcareous loams, often near salt lakes. 
£. kondininensis is a 'blackbutt', but its affinities are not with the other blackbutt taxa 
in the Obtusiflorosae, E. clelandii and £. lesouefii (which are related rather to 
£. striaticalyx), but with £. redimiculifera and its allies. 
Conservation status: not considered to be at risk. 
