Faulconbridge Mallee Ash

Eucalyptus burgessiana is a mallee or a small tree that typically grows to 7 metres (23 ft) 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 150 mm (5.9 in) long, 50 mm (2 in) wide and have a petiole. Adult leaves are narrow lance-shaped to curved, 70–130 mm (2.8–5.1 in) long and 13–25 mm (0.5–1 in) wide on a petiole 5–20 mm (0.20–0.79 in) long. The flower buds are arranged in groups of seven, nine or eleven on an unbranched peduncle 8–19 mm (0.31–0.75 in) long, the individual flowers on pedicels 2–6 mm (0.079–0.24 in) long. Mature flower buds are oval 7–11 mm (0.28–0.43 in) long and 3–6 mm (0.12–0.24 in) 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 8–12 mm (0.31–0.47 in) long and wide.

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