Eucalyptus banksii Maiden

Tree to 30 m. Bark rough, fibrous, tessellated throughout, grey-brown. Juvenile leaves opposite, sessile, broadly ovate, cordate, glaucous, discolorous. Adult leaves alternate, lanceolate, acuminate; lamina 12–20 cm long, 2–3 cm wide, grey-green, concolorous; lateral veins faint, at 20°–40°; intramarginal vein up to 3 mm from margin; petiole terete, 20–30 mm long. Umbels 7-flowered; peduncle flattened, 5–10 mm long; pedicels absent. Buds ovoid, angular; operculum hemispherical, 2–3 mm long, 3–5 mm wide; hypanthium hemispherical, 2–3 mm long, 3–5 mm wide. Fruits hemispherical, sometimes 2-ribbed, 4–6 mm long, 5–7 mm wide; disc narrow, convex; valves 3 or 4, exserted.

Locally frequent but scattered, in dry sclerophyll woodland on relatively infertile sandy soils.

Can be grown by seedlings.