Eucalyptus planipes

Eucalyptus planipes is a species of mallee that is endemic to Western Australia. It has smooth bark, lance-shaped adult leaves, flower buds in groups of three and conical fruit.
Description.
"Eucalyptus planipes" is a mallee that typically grows to a height of and has smooth white or pale grey bark. Young plants have greyish green, broadly lance-shaped leaves that are up to long and wide. Adult leaves are glossy bright green, lance-shaped or curved, long and wide on a more or less flattened petiole long. The flower buds are arranged in leaf axils in groups of three, on a flattened peduncle long, the individual buds on strongly flattened pedicels long. Mature buds are pear-shaped to club-shaped, long and wide with a conical to limpet-shaped, ribbed operculum less than half as long as the floral cup. The fruit is a woody, conical, ribbed capsule long and wide with the valves near rim level.
Taxonomy.
"Eucalyptus planipes" was first formally described in 2001 by Lawrie Johnson and Ken Hill in the journal "Telopea" from material collected near Coolgardie in 1983. The specific epithet ("planipes") means "flat foot", referring to the pedicels.
Distribution and habitat.
This mallee is found on low rises, sandplains and the open woodlands in an area to the south and west of Kalgoorlie, from Norseman to the west of Coolgardie, where it grows in shallow calcareous loam soils over dolerite.
Conservation status.
This eucalypt is classified as "not threatened" by the Western Australian Government Department of Parks and Wildlife.