It has rough bark near the base, smooth bark above, linear to lance-shaped adult leaves, flower buds in groups of between nine and fifteen, white flowers and shortened spherical fruit.Eucalyptus eremicola is a mallee, sometimes a tree, that typically grows to a height of 4–7 m (13–23 ft) and forms a lignotuber.

[2][3][4][5] Eucalyptus eremicola was first formally described in 1975 by Clifford David Boomsma from a specimen collected in 1967 by J. Johnson at Serpentine Lake in the Great Victoria Desert of South Australia.

[3][12] It is found in shrubland on sandplains and dunes where it grows in loamy-sandy soils.

It is found in the Great Victoria Desert region of South Australia and Western Australia, the north west of the Little Sandy Desert and as far west as Sandstone and Leonora.

[3] Vokes Hill mallee is classified as "not threatened" by the Western Australian Government Department of Parks and Wildlife.