Eucalyptus kybeanensis, the Kybean Mallee Ash is an uncommon mountain 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 south eastern 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...

. Usually a multi-stemmed mallee

Mallee

Mallee may refer to:* Mallee , the habit of woody plants that grow with multiple stems from underground lignotubers* Mallee , a biogeographic region in southern Western Australia...

 or small tree reaching 15 metres in height. Bark is smooth; near white, grey or somewhat greenish. Scribbles may be seen on the bark.

The specific epithet kybeanensis refers to the location of the original specimen. Collected by Richard Cambage

Richard Hind Cambage

Richard Hind Cambage was an Australian surveyor and botanist who made important contributions to the description of the genera Acacia and Eucalyptus.-Early life:...

 in November 1908 on sandy conglomerate

Conglomerate (geology)

A conglomerate is a rock consisting of individual clasts within a finer-grained matrix that have become cemented together. Conglomerates are sedimentary rocks consisting of rounded fragments and are thus differentiated from breccias, which consist of angular clasts...

 soils, near the Kydra Trig of the Kybean Range. Which is part of the Great Dividing Range

Great Dividing Range

The Great Dividing Range, or the Eastern Highlands, is Australia's most substantial mountain range and the third longest in the world. The range stretches more than 3,500 km from Dauan Island off the northeastern tip of Queensland, running the entire length of the eastern coastline through...

, around 26 kilometres from the town of Nimmitabel in south eastern New South Wales

New South Wales

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. The main areas of distribution however, are on the highland country of the Australian Alps, particularly in the state of Victoria

Victoria (Australia)

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