Eucalyptus cordata Labill.

Shrub to 3 m, or tree to 21 m high. Bark smooth throughout, white, grey, green or yellow-green and purple. Juvenile leaves opposite, sessile, amplexicaul, orbicular or cordate, crenulate, glaucous, slightly discolorous, usually persisting on mature trees. Adult leaves usually only in upper parts of large trees, alternate, lanceolate, acute; lamina 7.5–13 cm long, 2–3.8 cm wide, dull, grey-green or glaucous, concolorous; lateral veins faint, at 40°–45°; intramarginal vein very faint, up to 2 mm from margin; petiole flattened, 15–20 mm long. Umbels 3-flowered; peduncle flattened, glaucous, 5–8 mm long; pedicels absent. Buds obovoid or turbinate, glaucous; operculum low-hemispherical, slightly rostrate, 4–5 mm long, 8–10 mm wide; hypanthium obconical or campanulate, 6–7 mm long, 8–10 mm wide. Fruits subglobular or cylindrical, glaucous, smooth or 2-ribbed, 10–13 mm long and wide; disc narrow, descending; valves 3 or 4, included or level. [For more recent description see subspecies profiles-Editor]

Grows in marshy and damp areas of mountains in podsolic soils in wet sclerophyll forest. [Chippendale 1988:370] Grows at intermediate altitudes on well-developed loams on moist sites and in coastal heath.