The bark of E. accedens has talc-like powder, at least on the protected side of the trunk and the tree usually grows on laterite in higher places.

[3][4] Eucalyptus accedens is a tree which typically grows to a height of 15 to 25 metres (49 to 82 ft)[5] with branches high up the trunk[3] and forms a lignotuber.

Its diameter can be as large as 1.5 metres (5 ft) and hollows will readily form in dead branches or where limbs have fallen.

[6] Eucalyptus accedens was first formally described in 1904 by William Vincent Fitzgerald from specimens he had collected near Pingelly the previous year.

[8][9] The specific epithet (accedens) is a Latin word meaning "approaching" or "resembling", referring to the similarity of the bark of this species to that of E.

In the understorey, shrubs such as Hypocalymma angustifolia, Hibbertia hypericoides, Hakea lissocarpha, Acacia pulchella, Hovea chorizemifolia, Gastrolobium microcarpum, Lepidosperma leptostachyum and Bossiaea eriocarpa are often found.