Common name: Barren Mountain mallee
Eucalyptus approximans Maiden APNI* 
Description: Mallee to 5 m high; bark smooth, white, green or grey, shedding in ribbons.
Juvenile leaves disjunct, lanceolate, glossy green.
Adult leaves disjunct, narrow-lanceolate, 7–10 cm long, 0.6–0.9 cm wide, green, glossy, concolorous. Umbellasters 7-flowered; peduncle terete, 4–10 mm long; pedicels terete, 1–4 mm long. Buds clavate, 3–6 mm long, 3–4 mm diam., scar absent; calyptra hemispherical, shorter than and as wide as hypanthium, minutely warty.
Fruit cylindrical or hemispherical, 7–9 mm long, 6–8 mm diam.; disc flat; valves enclosed.
Distribution and occurrence: Known from a single stand, in mallee shrubland on skeletal soil on trachyte in Dorrigo area.
NSW subdivisions: NT
This species was previously listed as Vulnerable in N.S.W. It was delisted on 30 June 2023 following further data and field assessments. it is now considered least concern.
Text by K. Hill
Taxon concept: Flora of NSW 2 (1991)
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