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Eucalyptus obstans, commonly known as the Port Jackson mallee, is common eucalyptus of south eastern Australia. It grows as a multi-stemmed mallee reaching 4 metres in height.[1]

Port Jackson mallee
mallee at Ku-ring-gai Chase National Park, New South Wales
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
Clade:	Tracheophytes
Clade:	Angiosperms
Clade:	Eudicots
Clade:	Rosids
Order:	Myrtales
Family:	Myrtaceae
Genus:	Eucalyptus
Species:	E. obstans
Binomial name
Eucalyptus obstans L.A.S.Johnson & K.D.Hill

The bark is smooth, grey or greenish. It grows on poor shallow sandstone soils from Ku-ring-gai Chase National Park to Jervis Bay.[2]

Eucalyptus obstans was first formally described in 1991 by Lawrie Johnson and Ken Hill in the journal Telopea,[3] but the Australian Plant Census considers E. obstans to be a synonym of E. burgessiana.[4]

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