Eucalyptus pleurocorys is a species of mallee, sometimes a tree, that is endemic to Western Australia. It has rough, flaky or fibrous bark on the lower part of the trunk, smooth bark above, lance-shaped or curved adult leaves, flower buds in groups of between seven and eleven and conical fruit.
Eucalyptus pleurocorys is a mallee that typically grows to a height of, sometimes a tree to . It has rough, fibrous or flaky bark on the lower of the trunk, smooth greyish bark above. Adult leaves are glossy bright green, lance-shaped or curved, long and wide on a more or less flattened petiole long. The flower buds are arranged in leaf axils in groups of seven, nine or eleven, on a flattened peduncle long, the individual buds on ribbed pedicels long. Mature buds are oval, long and wide with a cup-shaped operculum that is narrower than the floral cup at the join. The fruit is a woody, conical capsule long and wide with the valves protruding slightly above the rim.[1]
Eucalyptus pleurocorys was first formally described in 2001 by Lawrie Johnson and Ken Hill in the journal Telopea from material collected south of the Balladonia Roadhouse in 1983.[2]
This mallee grows in a range of habitats from mallee scrub to woodland and heath. It grows in poorly-explored country between Caiguna and the Cape Arid National Park.