Eucalyptus socialis

Mallee; bark smooth, or only partly shed on lower part of trunk. Juvenile leaves sessile, opposite for many pairs, elliptic to ovate, to 4 cm long, 2 cm wide, dull, green, more or less glaucous on growing tips; adult leaves petiolate, alternate, lanceolate, 6–9(–13) cm long, 1.2–2(–3) cm wide, concolorous, dull, light green to blue-green, rarely glossy and green; side veins weakly pinnate, fine; oil glands numerous, round, island. Inflorescences axillary, unbranched; peduncles slightly flattened, to 2.3 cm long, 7–13-flowered; buds pedicellate, hypanthium cupular; operculum beaked, to 1.8 cm long, 0.6 cm diam., scar present; stamens irregularly flexed; anthers scarcely versatile, basifixed, globoid; ovules in 4 vertical rows; flowers white or creamy white. Fruit pedicellate, truncate-globose or truncate-ovoid, to 1(–1.8) cm long, 0.8 cm diam.; disc vertically descending; valves 3 or 4, enclosed, surmounted by semi-persistent, fragile style remnants; seed grey, flattened-ellipsoid, smooth with shallow, longitudinal furrows, hilum ventral.