It inhabits the drier open forests such as mallee and mulga but also heathland and mangroves on the coast.
It is found on sandy or gravelly soils in open forest or mallee communities.
The vegetation includes tea-tree scrub, wet heathland and mallee woodland.
They are found in some areas of mallee and heathland and are uncommon in wet sclerophyll forests.
This mallee is easily recognised in the field by its form, large, white, waxy leaves and, when in flower, stamens clustered in four groups.
It is a mallee eucalyptus that grows from about 1 to 4 metres in height.
Vegetation is mainly mallee over myrtaceous-proteaceous heaths on duplex (sand over clay) soils.
It is usually a small tree or mallee, though larger specimens can exceed 40 metres in height.
