Eucalyptus scias subsp. scias

Tree to 20 m tall; bark rough throughout, fibrous, grey or red-brown. Juvenile leaves petiolate, opposite for a few pairs then alternate, broadly lanceolate to lanceolate, to 20 cm long, 6 cm wide, discolorous, dull, green; adult leaves petiolate, alternate, broadly lanceolate to lanceolate, 7–20 cm long, 2–6 cm wide, discolorous, glossy, green; with regular, wide-angled pinnate side veins; reticulation dense, glands mostly intersectional. Inflorescences axillary, unbranched; peduncles flattened, to 2.3 cm long, 7-flowered; buds pedicellate, sometimes sessile, ovoid to diamond-shaped or fusiform, to 1.9 cm long, 1.3 cm wide, scar present; operculum conical to broadly conical or beaked; stamens inflexed; anthers versatile, dorsifixed, cuneate; ovules in 6 or 8 vertical rows; flowers white. Fruit pedicellate, sometimes sessile, cup-shaped to obconical or campanulate, to 1 cm long, 1.8 cm diam., operculum scar prominent; disc raised-convex or annular; valves 3–6, strongly exserted; seed brown, cuboid to pyramidal, pitted, hilum terminal.     Flowers Jan.–Feb.