Eucalyptus brachycalyx

Eucalyptus brachycalyx Blakely (Myrtaceae), the gilja or chindoo mallee, is a small mallee eucalypt endemic to semi-arid southern Australia, occurring chiefly in South Australia, north-western Victoria, and the southern wheatbelt of Western Australia, where it grows 3–8 m tall as a multi-stemmed shrub or small tree on calcareous and sandy loam soils. The smooth bark is grey to coppery, shedding in long ribbons to reveal a paler underbark. Juvenile leaves are opposite, sessile or shortly petiolate, and glaucous; adult leaves are alternate, lanceolate to falcate, 6–11 cm long, dull grey-green, and dotted with oil glands. Inflorescences are axillary umbels of 7–11 sessile or very shortly pedunculate buds with hemispherical to conical opercula; flowers are cream-white. The fruit is a small, sessile, more or less hemispherical to obconical capsule 5–8 mm wide with a flat or slightly raised disc and three to four valves not exserted above the rim.