It has smooth bark, lance-shaped to curved adult leaves, flowering buds in groups of seven or nine, white or cream-coloured flowers and barrel-shaped or shortened spherical fruit with an unusually narrow opening.Eucalyptus jucunda is a mallee that typically grows to a height of 3.5 m (11 ft), sometimes a tree to 8 m (26 ft), and forms a lignotuber.

Young plants and coppice regrowth have glaucous, sessile leaves arranged in opposite pairs.

[2][3][4] Eucalyptus jucunda was first formally described in 1964 by Charles Gardner from a specimen he collected near the Greenough River in 1959.

The description was published in Journal of the Royal Society of Western Australia.

[2][3][4] This eucalypt is classified as "not threatened" by the Western Australian Government Department of Parks and Wildlife.