It has smooth greyish bark, lance-shaped adult leaves, flower buds in groups of seven and conical to cup-shaped fruit.Eucalyptus major is a tree that typically grows to a height of 20 m (66 ft) and forms a lignotuber.

It has smooth, blotched greyish bark that is shed in large plates or flakes.

[2][3][4] This eucalypt was first formally described in 1923 by Joseph Maiden who gave it the name Eucalyptus propinqua var.

major and published the description in his book A Critical Revision of the Genus Eucalyptus.

[5][6] In 1934, William Blakely raised the variety to species status as Eucalyptus major, publishing the change in his book A Key to the Eucalypts.