Eucalyptus griffithsii
Eucalyptus griffithsii, commonly known as Griffith's grey gum, is a species of mallee or tree that is endemic to Western Australia. It has smooth grey to whitish bark, sometimes with rough, loose fibrous bark near the base of the trunk, lance-shaped adult leaves, flower buds in groups of three, white flowers and conical to cup-shaped fruit. Description. "Eucalyptus griffithsii" is a mallee or tree that typically grows to a height of and forms a lignotuber. It has smooth grey to whitish bark, sometimes with rough, fibrous or scaly bark covering the bottom . Young plants and  coppice regrowth have elliptical to lance-shaped, greyish green to slightly glaucous leaves, long and wide. Adult leaves are usually lance-shaped, the same glossy green on both sides, long and wide on a petiole long. The flower buds are arranged in leaf axils in groups of three on an unbranched peduncle long, the individual buds on pedicels long. Mature buds are cylindrical to pear-shaped, long and wide with an operculum that has radiating striations and is wider than the floral cup. Flowering occurs between September and December or between January and March and the flowers are white. The  fruit is a woody conical to cup-shaped capsule long and wide with two ridges along its sides and the valves near rim level. Taxonomy and naming. "Eucalyptus griffithsii" was first formally described in 1911 by Joseph Maiden in the "Journal of the Natural History and Science Society of Western Australia". The specific epithet ("griffithsii") honours John Moore Griffiths for his interest in the work of Maiden over "nearly thirty years". Distribution and habitat. Griffith's grey gum grows on low-lying flats and on rocky hillsides in the Goldfields-Esperance region of Western Australia between Kalgoorlie and Norseman where  it grows in loamy-gravelly soils. Conservation status. This mallee is classified as "not threatened" by the Western Australian Government Department of Parks and Wildlife.