Voucher specimen D.Nicolle 5588 & M.E.French.

Mallee to 3 metres tall. Bark smooth throughout, pinkish over powdery white. Leaves dull, blue-green. Branchlets distinctly glossy and dark purple. About six mallees growing on rocky ridge of loam and banded ironstone, in open shrubland, with some Eucalyptus loxophleba ssp. supralaevis nearby.