Mallee or small tree. Bark fibrous grey at base, smooth grey-white above, or smooth throughout. Juvenile leaves almost round to broadly ovate. Adult leaves more or less orbicular and tip generally emarginate. Blade 6-12 cm long, 5-8 cm wide, same colour on both surfaces, thick, dark green, glossy. Leaf stalk thick, 1-2 cm long. Flowers creamy white, in clusters of 1-7 (often only 1-3), with a thick, flattened common stalk 2-5 mm long; individual flowers without stalks; Dec-Mar. Buds warty, 4-5 mm long, 5-9 mm wide, no scar. Fruits hemispherical, warty, mostly 13-16 mm long, 15-18 mm wide. Syn. E. alpina Lindl. in part, E. verrucosa Ladiges and Whiffen.
Grows naturally in the higher parts of the Grampians Range,where it can be seen perhaps at its best in a pure stand on Mt William.
Vic (Montane Grampians, S Serra Range).
Thick leaves; large, warty buds and fruits.
VIC: Balwyn (Maranoa Gds).
Source: (2002). Eucalyptus. In: . 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.