Mallee to 3.5 m. Bark smooth throughout, grey to light brown. Juvenile leaves elliptical to lanceolate, grey-green. Adult leaves lanceolate, uncinate; lamina 8–11 cm long, 1–2 cm wide, pale green, glandular; lateral veins faint, at 30°–40°; intramarginal vein up to 2 mm from margin; petiole flattened or quadrangular, 10–20 mm long. Umbels 7–11-flowered; peduncle terete, sometimes flattened, 5–10 mm long; pedicels absent or to 2 mm long. Buds ±ovoid; operculum conical or hemispherical, 4–5 mm long, 4–6 mm wide; hypanthium cylindrical, 4–5 mm long, 4–6 mm wide. Fruits hemispherical or subglobular, 1-ribbed, 8–10 mm long and wide; disc narrow, descending; valves 3 or 4.

Occurs in W.A. near the S coast from the Gairdner R. to Israelite Bay, with an outlier near Cocklebiddy.

Grows in sandysoil on flat or slightly undulating country in low open shrubland.

W.A.: 16 km NE of Gibson, M.I.H.Brooker2755 (FRI, MEL, PERTH); 172 km E of Esperance towards Balladonia, M.I.H.Brooker 4488 (AD, BRI, FRI, MEL,NSW); 18.2 km N of Esperance, G.M.Chippendale190 (FRI, MEL, NSW, PERTH).

Distinguished from related taxa by the larger fruits. Operculum shorter than in E. decipiens and disc narrower

Illustration: G.M.Chippendale, Eucalypts W. Austral. Goldfields 95 (1973); C.A.Gardner (ed. T.E.Aplin), Eucalypts W. Australia 173 (1979); S.Kelly et al., Eucalypts 2: t. 235 (1983).

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