It has smooth greyish bark, lance-shaped to curved adult leaves, flower buds in groups of three, whitish flowers and cup-shaped to hemispherical fruit.Eucalyptus ebbanoensis is a mallee that typically grows to a height of 6 m (20 ft), occasionally a tree up to 10 m (33 ft), and forms a lignotuber.

[2][3][4] Eucalyptus ebbanoensis was first formally described in 1921 by Joseph Maiden from a specimen collected by Alexander Morrison at Ebano Springs near Mingenew in 1904.

[5][6][7] The specific epithet (ebbanoensis) is a reference to the type location, although a misspelling of "Ebano Springs".

[3][8] Three subspecies have been described and their names accepted by the Australian Plant Census: Sandplain mallee has been found in various places among breakaways, on sand plains and granite hills, growing in sandy soils and those derived from laterite.

The most widespread subspecies is ebbanoensis which is found through parts of the northern Wheatbelt and Goldfields-Esperance regions to the western edge of the Great Victoria Desert.