Eucalyptus diversifolia

Mallee to 6 m tall; bark smooth. Juvenile leaves sessile, opposite for many pairs, then petiolate, alternate, oblong to lanceolate, to 8 cm long, 4 cm wide, green; adult leaves petiolate, alternate, lanceolate, held somewhat erect, 7–13 cm long, 1.2–2.5 cm wide, concolorous, glossy, olive-green or bluish-green; reticulation dense, broken, with scattered island oil glands. Inflorescences axillary, unbranched; peduncles to 1.2 cm long, 7–11-flowered; buds shortly pedicellate, diamond-shaped, to 1.2 cm long, 0.6 cm diam., no scar (single operculum); operculum conical; stamens irregularly flexed; anthers dorsifixed, oblong or slightly reniform; ovules in 2 vertical rows; flowers white. Fruit sessile or shortly pedicellate, cupular to obconical, to 1.2 cm long, 1.5 cm diam.; disc level to slightly ascending; valves 4, rim level; seed brown, glossy, smooth, pyramidal but distorted by one curved face, hilum terminal. Flowers Aug.–Jan.