Eucalyptus burgessiana
Eucalyptus burgessiana, commonly known as the Faulconbridge mallee ash, is a small tree or mallee that is endemic to New South Wales. It has smooth bark, narrow lance-shaped or curved adult leaves, flower buds arranged in groups of between seven and eleven, white flowers and barrel-shaped or cup-shaped flowers.

Description
Eucalyptus burgessiana is a mallee or a small tree that typically grows to  and forms a lignotuber. It has smooth grey, pink, orange, pale brown or grey bark. Young plants and coppice regrowth are densely warty on the lower stem and have leaves that are glossy and bright green on both sides. The young leaves are broadly lance-shaped up to  long,  wide and have a petiole. Adult leaves are narrow lance-shaped to curved,  long and  wide on a petiole  long. The flower buds are arranged in groups of seven, nine or eleven on an unbranched peduncle  long, the individual flowers on pedicels  long. Mature flower buds are oval  long and  wide with a conical to rounded operculum, sometimes with a small point on the tip. Flowering mainly occurs between August and December and the flowers are white. The fruit is a woody barrel-shaped, cup-shaped or urn-shaped capsule  long and wide.

Taxonomy and naming
Eucalyptus burgessiana was first formally described in 1972 by Lawrie Johnson and Donald Blaxell from a specimen in Faulconbridge. The description was published in Contributions from the New South Wales National Herbarium. The specific epithet (burgessiana) honours Colin Burgess (1907–1987) who was knowledgeable about the flora of the Blue Mountains.

Distribution and habitat
Faulconbridge mallee ash grows in mallee shrubland between Springwood, Faulconbridge and Jervis Bay.

References

 A Field Guide to Eucalypts - Brooker & Kleinig volume 1,  page 99

burgessiana
Myrtales of Australia
Flora of New South Wales
Trees of Australia
Mallees (habit)
Plants described in 1972
Taxa named by Lawrence Alexander Sidney Johnson