Eucalyptus perriniana Rodway

Mallee to 6 m or straggly tree to 9 m. Bark smooth throughout, bronze, white-green or grey, or often a short stocking of persistent bark at trunk base. Juvenile leaves opposite, sessile, connate, orbicular, glaucous, slightly discolorous, often persisting on mature plants. Adult leaves alternate or subopposite, lanceolate, acuminate; lamina 8–13 cm long, 1.2–2.5 cm wide, dull, grey-green or blue-green, concolorous; lateral veins faint, at 25°–45°; intramarginal vein up to 2 mm from margin; petiole terete or flattened, 10–15 mm long. Umbels 3-flowered; peduncle terete, glaucous, 2–5 mm long; pedicels absent or to 2 mm long. Buds ovoid, glaucous; operculum hemispherical to conical, 2–3 mm long, 3–4 mm wide; hypanthium obconical, 3–4 mm long and wide. Fruits hemispherical, glaucous, sessile, 5–7 mm long and wide; disc narrow, level or descending; valves 3–5, ±level.

Wet hollows on poor mudstone soils; at elevations up to 1,800 metres. Locally frequent but sporadic, in grassy or shrubby woodland on moderately fertile soils on high, cold plains.

Can be grown by seedlings.