Eucalyptus broviniensis

Eucalyptus broviniensis is a species of small tree that is endemic to a small area in Queensland. It has smooth bark, lance-shaped adult leaves, flower buds arranged in groups of seven, white flowers and conical fruit.

Description
Eucalyptus broviniensis is a tree that typically grows to a height of about 10 m and forms a lignotuber. It has smooth bark, pale orange when new but fades to grey. Young plants and coppice regrowth have egg-shaped leaves arranged alternately, 60-100 mm long, 40-56 mm wide and have a petiole. Adult leaves are lance-shaped, 100-150 mm long, 25-45 mm wide on a petiole 20-40 mm long and are the same dull green colour on both sides. The flowers are borne in groups of seven in leaf axils on an unbranched peduncle 18-22 mm long, the individual buds on a pedicel up to 2 mm long. Mature buds are oval to spherical, 5-6 mm long and about 5 mm wide with a rounded operculum 3 mm long. Flowering occurs in summer and the flowers are white. The fruit is a woody conical capsule 3-5 mm long and 7-11 mm wide with the valves extending above the rim.

Taxonomy and naming
Eucalyptus broviniensis was first formally described in 2001 by Anthony Bean from a specimen collected near Brovinia and the description was published in the journal Austrobaileya. The specific epithet (boliviana) refers to the type location. The ending -ensis is a Latin suffix "denoting place", "locality" or "country".

Distribution and habitat
This eucalypt grows in heath and woodland with a heathy understorey, on the edges of a plateau in the Brovinia State Forest.