Eucalyptus melanophloia F.Muell.

Tree to 25 m. Bark rough throughout, dark grey to black, deeply furrowed. Juvenile leaves opposite, ovate to orbicular, often cordate, glaucous, concolorous. Adult leaves opposite, ovate to broadly lanceolate, apiculate; lamina 5–9 cm long, 2–3 cm wide, glaucous; lateral veins faint, at 40°–55°; intramarginal vein up to 2 mm from margin; petiole very short or absent. Conflorescence terminal, sometimes axillary, paniculate; umbels 7-flowered; peduncle terete or quadrangular, 4–16 mm long; pedicels 1–7 mm long. Buds fusiform, glaucous; operculum conical, 3–4 mm long, 3–5 mm wide; hypanthium obconical, 4–6 mm long, 3–5 mm wide. Fruits hemispherical, ovoid or urceolate, 3–8 mm long and wide, glaucous; disc broad, steeply descending; valves 3 or 4, level or slightly exserted.

Widespread and abundant, in grassy or sclerophyll woodland on lighter soils. Gently undulating country in grassy woodlands on a range of soils, though more common on fertile soils,such as those derived from basalt.

Can be grown by seedlings.