It has thin, rough, tessellated bark on some or all of the trunk, smooth bark above, broadly egg-shaped to broadly lance- shaped adult leaves, flower buds usually in groups of seven, creamy white flowers and urn-shaped fruit.

Corymbia foelscheana is a tree that typically grows to a height to 5–12 m (16–39 ft) and forms a lignotuber.

[2][3][4][5][6][7] The broad-leaved bloodwood was first formally described in 1882 by Ferdinand von Mueller in The Chemist and Druggist with Australasian Supplement and given the name Eucalyptus foelscheana.

[8][9] In 1995 Ken Hill and Lawrie Johnson changed the name to Corymbia foelscheana.

It occurs from the Kimberley region of Western Australia and east through the top end of the Northern Territory, including on Melville Island.