Eucalyptus surgens is a species of mallee that is endemic to a small area on the south coast of Western Australia. It has rough bark near the base of the stems, glossy green lance-shaped leaves, flower buds in groups of seven, creamy yellow flowers and cup-shaped to cylindrical fruit.
Eucalyptus surgens is a mallee that typically grows to a height of, forms a lignotuber and has smooth bark apart from some rough bark near the base of the trunk. Young plants and coppice regrowth have dull bluish green, broadly lance-shaped to egg-shaped leaves that are long, wide and petiolate. Adult leaves are the same shade of glossy light green on both sides, lance-shaped, up to long and wide. The flower buds are arranged in leaf axils on a thick, unbranched peduncle long, the individual buds on short pedicels. Mature buds have a bell-shaped floral cup and a cap-shaped operculum about long, wide and shorter than the floral cup. The flowers are creamy yellow and the fruit is a woody, cup-shaped to cylindrical capsule about long and wide with the valves below rim level.[1] [2]
Eucalyptus surgens was first formally described in 1993 by Ian Brooker and Stephen Hopper in the journal Nuytsia from specimens collected by Hopper near Toolinna Cove in 1989.[3] The specific epithet (surgens) is a Latin word meaning "rising", referring to a prominent vertical scar on the rim of the fruit.
This mallee is only known from the type location near the coast on the western edge of the Nullarbor Plain.