Tree to 60 m tall. Adult leaves petiolate, alternate, lanceolate, usually undulate, 8–22 cm long, 1–3.5 cm wide, concolorous, glossy, green, not pruinose; buds 0.6–0.9 cm long, 0.3–0.6 cm diam. Fruit 0.3–0.8 cm long, 0.5–0.8 cm diam. Flowers Mar.–May.
Wim, VVP, Gold, CVU, GGr, NIS, EGU, HSF, HNF, MonT, HFE, VAlp. Also SA, NSW, ACT. In Victoria east from Daylesford through the Great Dividing Range to the Nunniong Plateau and Bendoc. A stately tree of mountain forests over a wide altitudinal range. At its upper altitudinal limit, it may be a small tree growing with E. pauciflora, and on the eastern part of the Nunniong Plateau, with the rare, localised E. elaeophloia and E. forresterae.
Differs from Eucalyptus dalrympleana subsp. poliophylla mainly by its glossy green leaves. Nicolle (2022) notes that subsp. dalrympleana also has generally smaller fruits, however the reliability of fruit size as a difference is questionable.
