Eucalyptus rowleyi

Eucalyptus rowleyi is a mallee that grows to a height of and forms a lignotuber. The bark is smooth grey to tan, and cream-coloured when new. The leaves on young plants and on coppice regrowth are dull bluish green, egg-shaped, up to long and wide. Adult leaves are lance-shaped to broadly lance-shaped, mostly long and wide. The flower buds are borne in groups of seven or nine on a thickened peduncle long, the individual flowers on pedicels long. Mature buds are club-shaped, wide with a conical operculum long. The flowers are white and the fruit are cylindrical to urn-shaped, long and wide. ==Taxonomy and naming==

Eucalyptus rowleyi was first formally described in 2012 by Dean Nicolle and Malcolm E. French from material collected north of Newman by Ian Brooker in 1983. The description was published in the journal Nuytsia. The specific epithet (rowleyi) honours Bruce Rowley, an expert desert traveller who first discovered the Little Sandy Desert population of this species. ==Distribution and habitat==

This mallee usually grows on broad floodplains or in open mallee vegetation. It is only known from the area between Marble Bar, Newman and the Rudall River National Park in the Little Sandy Desert and Pilbara biogeographic regions. ==Conservation status==

This mallee is classified as "Priority Three" by the Western Australian Government Department of Parks and Wildlife ==See also==