Voucher specimen D.Nicolle 7572 (original + F1 seedlings).

Tree to 11 metres tall. Bark smooth throughout or rough for <1 metre, cream to pale tan. Adult leaves dull, green. Growing on sandstone outcrops on rise with Corymbia ferrugineasubsp. ferruginea, Eucalyptus aurantiaca and E. phoenicea.

Seedling leaves broad-lanceolate, ±concolorous, dull, green, slightly scabrid. Stems terete, hairy.