Eucalyptus exilis
Eucalyptus exilis, commonly known as Boyagin mallee, is a species of mallee that is endemic to Western Australia. It has thin stems with smooth bark, lance-shaped adult leaves, flower buds in groups of eleven, white flowers and barrel-shaped to shortened spherical fruit.
Description
Eucalyptus exilis is a mallee with a whipstick habit, typically grows to a height of and has a lignotuber. The trunk and branches have a covering of smooth, whitish to pale grey over yellow bark that is shed in long thin ribbons. Young plants and coppice regrowth have stems that are square in cross section and sessile, elliptical to egg-shaped leaves that are long and wide. Adult leaves are the same, slightly glossy green on both sides, elliptical to lance-shaped, long and wide on a petiole long.The flower buds are arranged in leaf axils in groups of eleven on an unbranched peduncle long, the individual buds on pedicels long. Mature buds are oval to pear-shaped, long and wide with a rounded, sometimes pointed operculum. Flowering occurs between August and October and the flowers are white. The fruit is a woody barrel-shaped to shortened spherical capsule long and wide with the valves enclosed below the level of the rim. The seeds are blackish brown, obliquely pyramidal and long.