Eucalyptus conferta

Eucalyptus conferta is a rare, slender tree that is endemic to a small area near Chewton, Victoria in Australia. It has thick, rough, fissured bark, dull green to bluish, lance-shaped adult leaves, flower buds arranged in groups of seven, white flowers and hemispherical fruit.

Description
Eucalyptus conferta is a slender tree typically growing to a height of about 15 m with thick, rough, fissured bark. The leaves on young plants are linear, curved, dull and glaucous, up to 80 mm long and 9 mm wide on a short petiole, or sessile. Adult leaves are dull green to bluish, lance-shaped, 70-110 mm long and 12-18 mm wide on a petiole 12-18 mm long. The flower buds are arranged in groups of seven in leaf axils on a thin peduncle 7-11 mm long, the individual buds on a thin pedicel 2–5. The mature buds are oval, 6-7 mm long and 2-3 mm wide with a conical operculum 3-4 mm long. Flowering occurs in autumn and the flowers are white. The fruit is a woody, hemispherical to almost conical capsule 3-4 mm long and wide on a slender pedicel 1-3 mm long.

Taxonomy and naming
Eucalyptus conferta was first formally described in 2012 by Kevin James Rule and the description was published in the journal Muelleria from a specimen collected in the Fryers Range west of Malmsbury. The specific epithet (conferta) is a Latin word meaning "pressed together", "crowded", "thick" or "dense", referring to the crowded leaves on immature plants.

Distribution and habitat
This eucalypt is a rare tree, restricted to the Glenluce State Forest about 17 km south of Chewton in Victoria, where it grows on hilly sites in dry, shallow soils.