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*Swamp mahogany, swamp messmate, beakpod eucalyptus, Australian silk oak (En). *Eucalyptus rouge, acajou des marais (Fr). *Eucalipto robusto, eucalipto de folha larga (Po). *Mkaratusi (Sw).

*Evergreen, medium-sized tree up to 30(–55) m tall; bole often relatively short, straight, up to 120 cm in diameter, on wet sites aerial roots up to 6 m high on the trunk may be present; bark rough, soft, spongy, fibrous, red-brown; crown spreading in trees growing in the open, and narrow in closely spaced plantations. *Leaves alternate, simple and entire; stipules absent; petiole channelled, 1.5–3.5 cm long; blade broadly lanceolate, 8–18(–20) cm × 2.5–8 cm, long-acuminate at apex, glabrous, dark green above, pale green beneath, pinnately veined, aromatic when crushed. *Inflorescence an axillary, simple, condensed and reduced, umbel-like dichasium, 5–15-flowered; peduncle broadly flattened, 13–35 mm long. *Flowers bisexual, regular; pedicel angular and up to 9(–12) mm long; flower buds spindle-shaped, beaked, 10–30 mm × 6–8 mm, divided into a hypanthium (lower part) 6–7 mm × 6–8 mm, and a conical, beaked operculum (upper part) 10–14 mm × 6–8 mm, shed at anthesis; stamens numerous; ovary inferior, 3–4-celled. *Fruit a thin-walled cylindrical to urn-shaped capsule (8–)10–18 mm × 6–11 (–12) mm, enclosed in a woody hypanthium, opening with 3–4 included to slightly exserted valves, many-seeded. *Seeds cube-shaped or flat, 1–2 mm long, brown. *Seedling with epigeal germination.

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* R.B. Jiofack Tafokou , Ecologic Museum of Cameroon, P.O. Box 8038, Yaoundé, Cameroon

Jiofack Tafokou, R.B., 2008. '''Eucalyptus robusta''' Sm. [Internet] Record from PROTA4U. In: Louppe, D., Oteng-Amoako, A.A. & Brink, M. (Editors). PROTA (Plant Resources of Tropical Africa / Ressources végétales de l’Afrique tropicale), Wageningen, Netherlands. <http://www.prota4u.org/search.asp>. Accessed {{CURRENTDAY}} {{CURRENTMONTHNAME}} {{CURRENTYEAR}}.