Eucalyptus ultima
Eucalyptus ultima is a species of mallee that is endemic to a small area in the Gascoyne region of Western Australia. It has smooth bark, linear to narrow lance-shaped leaves, flower buds in groups of nine to fifteen, white flowers and spherical to cup-shaped fruit. Description Eucalyptus ultima is a mallee that typically grows to a height of and forms a lignotuber. It has smooth grey to pinkish bark, sometimes with rough, fibrous bark near the base. Adult leaves are the same shade of green on both sides, linear to narrow lance-shaped, long and wide, tapering to petiole long. The flower buds are arranged in leaf axils in groups of nine to fifteen on an unbranched peduncle long, the individual buds on pedicels long. Mature buds are oval, long and about wide with a conical to horn-shaped operculum that is longer than the floral cup. Flowering occurs from April to August and the flowers are white. The fruit is a woody shortened spherical to cup-shaped capsule long and wide with the valves protruding but fragile. Taxonomy and naming Eucalyptus ultima was first formally described in 1999 by Lawrie Johnson and Ken Hill in the journal Telopea from specimens collected by