Eucalyptus retusa

Eucalyptus retusa is a mallee that typically grows to a height of and forms a lignotuber. It has smooth, pale grey bark that is cream-coloured when new. Young plants have egg-shaped to more or less round leaves that are dull green, paler on the lower surface, up to long and wide. Adult leaves are glossy green, egg-shaped to spatula-shaped, long and wide, tapering to the petiole. The flower buds are arranged in leaf axils in clusters of between thirteen and nineteen, the buds joined at the base. The operculum is long and wide at the base. The flowers are yellowish green and the fruit are conical, wide and fused at the base, the fused fruit in diameter. ==Taxonomy and naming==

Eucalyptus retusa was first formally described in 2008 by Dean Nicolle, Malcolm French and Nathan McQuoid from a specimen collected near Bremer Bay in 2004. The description was published in the journal Nuytsia. The specific epithet (retusa) is from the Latin retusus meaning blunted, rounded, notched at the tip. ==Distribution and habitat==

The Point Hood yate is only known from a single population at the type location near Bremer Bay where it grows in low scrubland on a rocky headland. ==Conservation status==

This eucalypt is classified as "Priority One" by the Government of Western Australia Department of Parks and Wildlife, ==See also==