Eucalyptus bunyip

Tree to 40 m tall; bark smooth, whitish to light brown or yellowish-orange, with a short stocking of rough, somewhat corky bark at base. Mature crown with adult and intermediate leaves. Juvenile leaves petiolate, soon alternate, ovate to ovate-lanceolate or elliptic, to 6 cm long, 3 cm wide, discolorous, somewhat glossy, green, to blue-green, glandular; adult leaves petiolate, alternate, ovate to broadly lanceolate, undulate, to 17 cm long, 3.2 cm wide, concolorous, glossy, green; new growth glaucous; reticulation dense, with numerous, mostly island oil glands. Inflorescence axillary, unbranched, peduncle to 1.4 cm long, 7-flowered; buds long-pedicellate, clavate or slightly diamond-shaped, to 1 cm long, 0.35 cm diam., scar present; operculum shortly rostrate; stamens irregularly flexed; anthers dorsifixed, oblong; ovules in 4 vertical rows; flowers white. Fruit long-pedicellate, more or less hemispherical, to 0.6 cm long, 0.5 cm diam.; disc slightly raised; valves 3 or 4, rim level or slightly exserted; seed dark grey, flattened-ellipsoid, lacunose, very shallowly reticulate, hilum ventral. Flowers autumn.