What type of tree is the coolabah, found in Australia?
Eucalyptus coolabah 1934 in the work "A Key to the Eucalypts". There are several synonyms for the species including "Eucalyptus gymnoteles", "Eucalyptus coolabah" Blakely & Jacobs subsp. "coolabah", "Eucalyptus coolabah" subsp. "excerata" L.A.S.Johnson & K.D.Hill and "Eucalyptus coolabah" subsp. "arida" (Blakely) L.A.S.Johnson & K.D.Hill. The tree is found in western New South Wales, north western South Australia, the Kimberley region of Western Australia, western Queensland and southern to central parts of the Northern Territory. The tree occurs on occasionally flooded heavy-soiled plains and banks of intermittent streams and creeks. The watercourses will usually not flow often enough to support the river red
Eucalyptus coolabah periodic flooding. Nonetheless, the tree can be found over extensive areas of floodplain far from permanent water, as well as near seasonally flooded springs or close to permanent bodies of water. "E. coolabah" is very similar to "E. microtheca". The main external difference is that the latter has rough bark to the small branches, while in "E. coolabah" the branches have smooth white, pale grey, or pink bark. "E. coolabah" was once known as "E. microtheca" (which now has a number of subspecies), before splitting. The tree was first formally described by the botanists William Blakely and Maxwell Jacobs in