Eucalyptus ebbanoensis

Eucalyptus ebbanoensis is a mallee that typically grows to a height of 6 m (20 ft), occasionally a tree up to 10 m (33 ft), and forms a lignotuber. Young plants and coppice regrowth have hairy stems and leaves that are petiolate, 45–80 mm (1.8–3.1 in) long and 20–40 mm (0.79–1.57 in) wide. Adult leaves are lance-shaped to curved, 55–125 mm (2.2–4.9 in) long and 7–22 mm (0.28–0.87 in) wide on a petiole 8–20 mm (0.31–0.79 in) long. The flower buds are arranged in groups of three in leaf axils on a peduncle 4–10 mm (0.16–0.39 in) long, the individual buds on a pedicel 1–5 mm (0.039–0.197 in) long. Mature buds are oval to pear-shaped, 4–7 mm (0.16–0.28 in) long and 5–7 mm (0.20–0.28 in) wide with a conical or rounded operculum. Flowering mainly occurs from September to December and the flowers are creamy white. The fruit is a woody cup-shaped to hemispherical or bell-shaped capsule 6–11 mm (0.24–0.43 in) long and 8–12 mm (0.31–0.47 in) wide with the valves near the level of the rim.

Sandplain mallee has been found in various places among breakaways, on sand plains and granite hills, growing in sandy soils and those derived from laterite. The most widespread subspecies is ebbanoensis which is found through parts of the northern Wheatbelt and Goldfields-Esperance regions to the western edge of the Great Victoria Desert. Subspecies glauciramula is found to the east of this area and subspecies photina has a restricted distribution in the Moresby Range north and east of Geraldton. These are areas of predominantly winter rainfall with an annual average of 250–400 mm (9.8–15.7 in).