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One of several Chiloscyphus species with teeth on outer leaf margin (images 6 & 7 show detail). This species also has a distinctive odour. The under leaves are widely bi-lobed with an additional tooth per lobe (image 5). They also connected to the main leaves on both sides which can also be seen on image 5 while the dissection process means only one side connection remains on images 8 & 9. You can also see this connection on the right side of image 10. Image 11 shows detail of the under leaf teeth and you can see the small trigones between the cells of the main leaf in the final image.

Height: 10 cm
Diameter: 2 cm
Status: Indigenous
Habitat: Fern gully
Other spp: Hedycarya angustifolia, Dicksonia antarctica, Pomaderris aspera, Polystichum proliferum, Blechnum parrisiae, mosses & liverworts

Voucher specimen D.Nicolle 3552 & M.E.French.

Tree 12 metres tall, others up to 20 metres tall. Bark smooth throughout, pale grey over powdery white over pink. Leaves discolorous, glossy above, green. Population of at least 200 trees in gully of white gritty sand between granite boulders, growing with Corymbia calophylla and Eucalyptus marginata subsp. marginata.

Unvouchered observation growing at D.Nicolle 8005 & M.E.French.

Growing in mallee shrubland on slight broad rise of white sand over orange clay with Eucalyptus connexa, E. eremophila, E. incrassata and E. tumida.

Voucher specimen D.Nicolle 3514 & M.E.French.

Tree 9 metres tall. Bark smooth throughout, powdery white over pink, with some attached brown flakes. Leaves very slightly discolorous, glossy, green. Flowers white. Growing on grey sandy flat with Corymbia calophylla and Eucalyptus marginata subsp. marginata.

Adult leaf of F1 with transmitted light, scale bar 1 cm long.

Tree of poor form, 8 metres tall. Bark rough throughout, moderately fissured, grey over brown. Leaves discolorous, glossy above, dark green. Flowers cream. Growing on orange laterite hillside with Corymbia calophylla and Eucalyptus marginata.