Eucalyptus albens, known as the white box,[3] is a common tree of the western slopes and plains of New South Wales and adjacent areas in Queensland and Victoria.

Its trunk may reach 0.5 metres (1 ft 8 in) diameter at breast height and has rough, fibrous, pale grey, sometimes tessellated bark to the base of its larger branches.

[4][3][5][6][7][8]Eucalyptus albens was first formally described in 1867 George Bentham in Flora Australiensis, from material collected in several locations, including by botanist and explorer, Allan Cunningham, along the "Macquarrie river".

[9][10] In 2009, Anthony Bean selected the material collected by Charles Stuart in the New England district of New South Wales as the lectotype.

[4] Eucalyptus albens is a component of the "WhiteBox Yellow Box Blakelys' Red Gum Woodland" commonly referred to as "Box-Gum Woodland" that is classed as "critically endangered" under the Australian Government Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act 1999 and as an "endangered ecological community" under the New South Wales Government Biodiversity Conservation Act 2016.