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Nuytsia
The journal of the Western Australian Herbarium

Corymbia cadophora subsp. polychroma (Myrtaceae): a new subspecies from the east Kimberley region of Western Australia
BARRETT, R.L.

A new subspecies of Corymbia cadophora K.D.Hill & L.A.S.Johnson is described from the east Kimberley region of Western Australia. The new subspecies, Corymbia cadophora subsp. polychroma R.L.Barrett, is only known from a single location where it grows on sandstone adjacent to a banded ironstone deposit on the western side of the Ragged Range. A key is provided to all three subspecies of C. cadophora.