Eucalyptus gittinsii Brooker & Blaxell

Mallee to 5 m high. Bark pink-grey to grey-brown. Juvenile leaves alternate, ovate to elliptic, densely pilose when young. Adult leaves alternate, lanceolate, acuminate or uncinate; lamina 7–15 cm long, 15–30 mm wide, green; lateral veins prominent, at 30°–35°; intramarginal vein up to 1 mm from margin; petiole flattened, 10–20 mm long. Peduncle angular, 6–10 mm long; pedicels 5–10 mm long. Buds quadrangular, turbinate; operculum pyramidal or hemispherical, 1–2 mm long, 4–5 mm wide; hypanthium obconical, 4–5 mm long and wide. Fruits 15–20 mm long, 8–10 mm wide; disc broad, vertically descending; valves 3. [For more recent description see subspecies profiles-Editor]

Grows on sand plains and sand dunes in low open woodland.