Eucalyptus pauciflora

Tree to 30 m tall; bark smooth, usually with scribbles. Juvenile leaves sessile, opposite for few pairs then petiolate, alternate, ovate or broadly falcate, pendulous, to 16 cm long, 6 cm wide, glaucous; adult leaves petiolate, alternate, broadly lanceolate to lanceolate, to 16 cm long, 3 cm wide, concolorous, glossy, green to grey-green or olive-green; side veins more or less parallel to midrib; reticulation sparse, with numerous, island oil glands. Inflorescences axillary, unbranched; peduncles to 1.6 cm long, 11 (or more)-flowered; buds clavate, to 0.9 cm long, 0.5 cm diam., no scar (single operculum); operculum hemispherical or conical; stamens mostly inflexed; anthers dorsifixed, reniform; ovules in 2–4 vertical rows; flowers white. Fruit more or less sessile, cupular to obconical, to 1.3 cm long, 1.5 cm diam.; disc level to descending; valves 3(4), rim level; seed blackish, glossy, smooth, pyramidal but distorted by one curved face, hilum terminal.