[2][3][4][5] The sand mallet was first formally described in 1904 by Ludwig Diels from material collected near Boorabbin in the Coolgardie district by Ernst Georg Pritzel.

eremophila and published the description in the journal Botanische Jahrbücher für Systematik, Pflanzengeschichte und Pflanzengeographie.

[13] Eucalyptus eremophila is found on undulating plains, hills and sand dunes in the Wheatbelt and Goldfields-Esperance region of Western Australia where it grows in skeletal sandy soils over granite.

[3] It is found as far north west as Quairading in the central Wheatbelt to the western edge of the Nullarbor Plain in the south east.

It prefers a full sun position and is regarded as quite hardy being drought tolerant and able to withstand a moderate frost.