Eucalyptus brevipes Brooker

Mallee to 5 m. Bark rough, hard to 1 m at base of trunk, then smooth, grey or salmon pink above. Juvenile leaves linear to narrowly lanceolate, dull, green. Adult leaves linear, uncinate; lamina 7–10 cm long, 0.6–0.8 cm wide, shining, green; lateral veins faint, at 15°–20°; intramarginal vein up to 1 mm from margin; petiole terete or slightly flattened, 6–9 mm long. Peduncle terete or angular, 3–5 mm long; pedicels angular, 3–4 mm long. Buds clavate; operculum conical, sometimes apiculate, 2–3 mm long, 3–4 mm wide; hypanthium obconical, sometimes ribbed, 2–4 mm long, 3–4 mm wide. Fruits cylindrical, 5–7 mm long, 5–6 mm wide; valves 4.

Grows in sand or sandy loam in low open woodland.