Eucalyptus sheathiana Maiden

Tree to 15 m, sometimes a mallee to 4.5 m. Bark smooth, grey to brown, often prickly to touch. Juvenile leaves not seen. Adult leaves lanceolate, sometimes falcate, uncinate, thick; lamina 7–10 cm long, 1.5–2.5 cm wide, grey-green or dull green; lateral veins faint, at 30°–40°; intramarginal vein up to 1 mm from margin; petiole terete, 15–25 mm long. Umbels 7-flowered; peduncle slightly flattened, 10–20 mm long; pedicels 3–8 mm long. Buds subglobular to conical, glaucous; operculum hemispherical, shortly apiculate, or conical, 3–5 mm long and wide; hypanthium campanulate, 4–5 mm long, 3–5 mm wide. Fruits cylindrical, often glaucous, 7–8 mm long, 6–7 mm wide; valves 4, slightly included to slightly exserted.

Grows in sandy or lateritic soil on flat areas in shrubland,often seen as remnants at the edges of fields.