Eucalyptus elata Dehnh.

Tree to 30 m. Bark fibrous to c. 10 m, compact, dark grey, with longitudinal fissures, then smooth, grey or white above. Juvenile leaves lanceolate, amplexicaul, green. Adult leaves narrowly lanceolate, acuminate, thin; lamina 10–14 cm long, 0.7–1.3 cm wide, green; lateral veins faint, at 15°–25°; intramarginal vein up to 1 mm from margin; petiole terete, 10–15 mm long. Umbels up to 40-flowered; peduncle angular, 5–10 mm long; pedicels 2–5 mm long. Operculum hemispherical or conical, c. 1 mm long, 1–2 mm wide; hypanthium obconical or subpyriform, 2–3 mm long and wide. Fruits subglobular, 4–6 mm long and wide; disc broad, descending or level; valves 3 or 4, included.

Growsusually along watercourses, but also in undulating country, sometimes on rockyridges and screes in open forest and tall open forest.

Can be grown by seedlings.