Eucalyptus flindersii, commonly known as the South Australian grey mallee, mallee red gum, or grey mallee,[1] is a species of mallee that is endemic to South Australia. It usually has smooth, pinkish grey bark, lance-shaped to curved adult leaves, flower buds in groups of three or seven and conical or hemispherical fruit with the valves protruding.
Eucalyptus flindersii is a mallee, rarely a small tree, and typically grows to a height of Шаблон:Cvt and usually has smooth, dull, grey bark that sheds in flakes to reveal a paler layer, sometimes with rough bark at the base of the trunk. Young plants and coppice regrowth have stems that are more or less square in cross-section, and leaves that are petiolate, egg-shaped, Шаблон:Cvt long and Шаблон:Cvt wide. Adult leaves are the same dull to slightly glossy, green to blue-green colour on both sides, lance-shaped to curved, Шаблон:Cvt long and Шаблон:Cvt wide on a petiole Шаблон:Cvt wide. The flower buds are arranged in leaf axils in groups of three or seven on an unbranched peduncleШаблон:Cvt long, the individual buds sessile or on pedicels up to Шаблон:Cvt long. Mature buds are oval, Шаблон:Cvt long and Шаблон:Cvt wide with a rounded to conical operculum. Flowering occurs between August and October and the flowers are white. The fruit is a woody hemispherical to conical capsuleШаблон:Cvt long and Шаблон:Cvt wide with the valves protruding above the rim of the fruit.[1][2][3][4][5]
The South Australian grey mallee grows on slopes and between rocks in open woodland, mainly in the Flinders Ranges but with outliers to the south near Yunta and Quorn.[2][5]
