Eucalyptus exilis Brooker

Mallee to 6 m; branchlets glaucous. Bark pink-grey, light grey or cream. Juvenile leaves subopposite, becoming alternate, ovate to elliptic. Adult leaves lanceolate to elliptic, uncinate, thick; lamina 4–7 cm long, 0.8–1.2 cm wide, grey-green; lateral veins faint, at 30°–40°; intramarginal vein up to 1 mm from margin; petiole flattened, 6–15 mm long. Umbels 11-flowered; peduncle flattened, 8–15 mm long; pedicels 3–5 mm long. Buds clavate to ovoid; operculum hemispherical to conical, 2–3 mm long, 4–5 mm wide; hypanthium hemispherical, 4–5 mm long and wide. Fruits truncate-globular or ovoid, 11–15 mm long, 10–14 mm wide; disc vertical. Seeds pyramidal, ribbed, black.

Grows on slopes of hills on the eastern side of the Darling Ra., inheathland or shrubland.