Eucalyptus kochii Maiden & Blakely

Mallee to 5 m or tree to 12 m. Bark rough, fibrous, twisted or latticed, dark grey on lower trunk, smooth, red-brown or grey-brown above. Juvenile leaves alternate, shortly petiolate, linear to narrowly lanceolate, glaucous. Adult leaves almost linear to narrowly lanceolate, uncinate; lamina 6.5–10 cm long, 0.5–1.2 cm wide, dull to slightly shining, green, usually glandular; lateral veins faint, at 40°–45°; intramarginal vein up to 1 mm from margin; petiole terete, 6–12 mm long. Umbels 7–11-flowered; peduncle terete, 6–8 mm long; pedicels 2–3 mm long. Buds cylindrical to fusiform; operculum conical, 4–5 mm long, c. 3 mm wide; hypanthium obconical or cylindrical, 4–5 mm long, c. 3 mm wide. Fruits subovoid or suburceolate, 6–7 mm long, 5–6 mm wide; valves 3 or 4.

Found on flats and depressions, slight rises, and roadsides, growing on yellow-red sand, sandy clay and loam, gravel, laterite, granite, limestone.

Can be grown by seedlings.