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Eucalyptus absita also known as the Badgingarra box is a tree that is native to a small area near Badgingarra in the Shire of Dandaragan in Western Australia.
The tree stands between 2.5 metres (8 ft) and 10 m (33 ft) tall with fibrous grey-brown box type bark for up to 2 m (6.6 ft). Above this the bark is gray over copper and green and smoother. Adult leaves have a dense vein network and are glossy in appearance.
The plant flowers between April and July and the inflorescence is white, seven-flowered and terminal.
It was first described by the botanists Peter Grayling and Ian Brooker in 1992 in the journal Nuytsia from sample collected by Brooker south east of Badgingarra in 1986. The species was declared rare flora in 1989 and then as critically endangered in 1997.