Corymbia ligans is a species of tree that is endemic to north-eastern Queensland. It has rough bark on the trunk and branches, narrow lance-shaped adult leaves, flower buds in groups of seven and elongated barrel-shaped fruit.
Corymbia ligans is a tree that typically grows to a height of and forms a lignotuber. It has rough, tessellated, greyish bark on the trunk and branches. Young plants and coppice regrowth have narrow elliptic, later lance-shaped leaves that are long, wide and paler on the lower surface. Adult leaves are glossy green on the upper surface, paler below, narrow lance-shaped, long and wide tapering to a petiole long. The flower buds are arranged on the ends of branchlets on a branched peduncle long, each branch of the peduncle with seven buds on pedicels long. Mature buds are oval to narrow pear-shaped, long and wide with a rounded operculum. The flowering time and flower colour have not been recorded. The fruit is a woody elongated barrel-shaped capsule with the valves enclosed in the fruit.[1] [2]
Corymbia ligans was first formally described in 1995 by Ken Hill and Lawrie Johnson from specimens collected south of Greenvale on the road to Charters Towers.[3]
This eucalypt usually grows in shallow soil on stony or sandy hills mostly near Greenvale, The Lynd, Einasleigh and the Newcastle Range.