Tree or mallee to 5-6 m tall with trunk appearing to spiral. Bark shining brown. Juvenile leaves lanceolate. Adult leaves lanceolate; blade 6-9 cm long, mostly 1-1.5 cm wide, glossy. Leaf stalk 6-12 mm long. Flower buds and fruits in 3s, common stalk absent or short and flattened. Fruits stalkless, 2-winged, 7-10 mm long, 1-1.5 cm wide.

Grows naturally on clay and sometimes salty soils in C S WA. Grown along highways in NW Vic.

WA.

Stalkless, 2-winged fruits.

Source: Spencer, R.; Rule, K. (2002). Eucalyptus. In: Spencer, R.. Horticultural Flora of South-eastern Australia. Volume 3. Flowering plants. Dicotyledons. Part 2. The identification of garden and cultivated plants. University of New South Wales Press.