Eucalyptus polita

Eucalyptus polita is a mallet or tree that typically grows to a height of but does not form a lignotuber. It has smooth greyish bark that is shed in long ribbons to reveal orange-coloured new bark. Young plants and coppice regrowth have dull green, lance-shaped leaves that are long and wide. Adult leaves are the same shade of glossy green on both sides, narrow lance-shaped, long and wide, tapering to a petiole long. The flower buds are arranged in leaf axils in groups of seven, nine or eleven on a flattened, unbranched peduncle long, the individual buds sessile or on pedicels up to long. Mature buds are oval to more or less cylindrical, long and about wide with a conical, striated operculum. The flowers are white and the fruit is a woody, cup-shaped capsule long and wide with the valves near rim level. ==Taxonomy and naming==

Eucalyptus polita was first formally described in 1993 by Ian Brooker and Stephen Hopper in the journal Nuytsia from material collected by Brooker on the Hyden - Norseman track in 1983. The specific epithet (polita) is from the Latin politus meaning "polished", referring to the bark. ==Distribution and habitat==

This mallet grows around salt lakes and on flat areas from Forrestania to near Marvel Loch in the Avon Wheatbelt, Coolgardie and Mallee biogeographic regions. ==Conservation status==

This mallee eucalypt is classified as "not threatened" by the Western Australian Government Department of Parks and Wildlife. ==See also==