Eucalyptus burgessiana known as the Faulconbridge Mallee Ash is rare a eucalyptus

Eucalyptus

Eucalyptus is a diverse genus of flowering trees in the myrtle family, Myrtaceae. Members of the genus dominate the tree flora of Australia...

 of the Blue Mountains in Australia

Australia

Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...

. It occurs in high rainfall areas, on skeletal sandstone soils at Faulconbridge and Linden

Linden, New South Wales

Linden is a village in the Blue Mountains of New South Wales, Australia. It is in the City of Blue Mountains, 81 km west of Sydney and 19 kms east of Katoomba. The village is on the Great Western Highway and has a railway station on the Main Western railway line served by CityRail's Blue...

. Also occurring on sandstone ledges, on the south and western slopes of Mount Tomah

Mount Tomah, New South Wales

Mount Tomah is a locality in the state of New South Wales, Australia in the City of Blue Mountains. The area is famous for the Mount Tomah Botanic Garden....

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Listed on ROTAP

ROTAP

Rare or Threatened Australian Plants, usually abbreviated to ROTAP, is a list of rare or threatened Australian plant taxa. Developed and maintained by the CSIRO, the most recent edition lists 5031 taxa. The list uses a binary coding system based on the IUCN Red List categories for "Presumed...

: with a rare plant rating of 2RCa. A multistemmed mallee

Mallee (habit)

Mallee is the growth habit of certain eucalypt species that grow with multiple stems springing from an underground lignotuber, usually to a height of no more than ten metres...

growing to 6 metres tall.