Eucalyptus ligustrina, commonly known as the privet-leaved stringybark,[2] is a species of shrub, mallee or small tree that is endemic to New South Wales.

It has rough, stringy bark, lance-shaped to egg-shaped adult leaves, flower buds in groups of between seven and fifteen, white flowers and hemispherical or shortened spherical fruit.Eucalyptus ligustrina is a small tree, often a mallee or a shrub, that sometimes grows to 20 m (66 ft) but usually to less than 10 m (33 ft), and forms a lignotuber.

[2][3][4][5] Eucalyptus ligustrina was first formally described in 1828 by the Swiss botanist Augustin Pyramus de Candolle in Prodromus Systematis Naturalis Regni Vegetabilis.

[6][7] The specific epithet (ligustrina) is a reference to the similarity of the leaves to those of plants in the genus Ligustrum.

The habitat is dry sclerophyll woodland or heathland, on poor soils derived from sandstone or acidic granite.