It has rough flaky bark on the trunk, sometimes also on the larger branches, smooth bark above, lance-shaped adult leaves, flower buds in groups of seven, white flowers and urn-shaped to almost spherical fruit.

Corymbia pocillum is a tree that typically grows to a height of 10 m (33 ft) and forms a lignotuber.

[2][3] Corymbia pocillum was first formally described in 1987 by Denis John Carr and Stella Grace Maisie Carr who gave it the name Eucalyptus pocillum and published the description in their book Eucalyptus II - The rubber cuticle, and other studies of the Corymbosae.

[3] This eucalypt grows in sandy soil on sandstone and granite around Normanton and south of there towards Hughenden.

[2][3] This species is listed as of "least concern" under the Queensland Government Nature Conservation Act 1992.