Eucalyptus spathulata Hook.

Tree or mallee to 12 m. Bark smooth, red-brown to grey. Juvenile leaves narrowly lanceolate. Adult leaves linear-lanceolate or narrowly elliptic, often uncinate, glandular; lamina 5–6 cm long, up to 1 cm wide; lateral veins and intramarginal vein obscure; petiole 2–5 mm long. Umbels 3–7-flowered. Peduncle 5–15 mm long. Buds ovoid to cylindrical; operculum cylindrical-conical, 5–10 mm long, 3–4 mm wide, usually slightly narrower than hypanthium; hypanthium hemispherical, up to 8 mm long, c. 4 mm wide. Fruits hemispherical to pyriform; disc obscure; valves 3–5, narrow, exserted.

Grows in low lying areas and in gravelly loam, often in thickets.