Eucalyptus scoparia Maiden

Tree to 15 m. Bark smooth, powdery throughout, white to pale grey. Juvenile leaves opposite to subopposite, petiolate, narrowly elliptic, green, slightly discolorous. Adult leaves alternate, narrowly lanceolate to linear-lanceolate, acuminate; lamina 10–15 cm long, 0.6–1 cm wide, shining, green; lateral veins faint, at 12°–15°; intramarginal vein up to 1 mm from margin; petiole terete, 8–12 mm long. Peduncle slightly flattened or terete, 4–8 mm long; pedicels terete, 2–4 mm long. Buds ovoid; operculum conical, slightly rostrate, c. 3 mm long, 3–4 mm wide; hypanthium cylindrical, 2–3 mm long, 3–4 mm wide. Fruits ovoid, 4–5 mm long and wide; disc ascending; valves usually 3, level or slightly exserted.

Grows ongranite outcrops and slopes often as scattered trees in open forest andwoodland.