Eucalyptus exigua
Eucalyptus exigua is a species of mallee that is endemic to Western Australia. It has smooth, whitish bark, linear to narrow lance-shaped adult leaves, flower buds in groups of between seven and eleven, white flowers and short barrel-shaped to conical fruit. Description Eucalyptus exigua is a mallee that typically grows to a height of and forms a lignotuber. It has smooth, white to grey bark on the trunk and branches. Young plants and coppice regrowth have petiolate, narrow elliptical to lance-shaped leaves that are long and wide. Adult leaves are arranged alternately, linear to narrow lance-shaped, the same dull to glossy green colour on both sides, long and wide on a petiole long. The flower buds are arranged in leaf axils in groups of seven, nine or eleven on an unbranched peduncle long, the individual buds on a thick pedicel long. Mature buds are more or less cylindrical, long and wide with a flattened operculum with a short point in the centre. Flowering occurs in March and the flowers are white. The fruit is a woody, shortly barrel-shaped to conical capsule long and wide with and a descending disc and four valves at rim level. The brown seeds within have