It has smooth mottled greyish bark, lance-shaped to curved adult leaves, flower buds in compound umbels, white flowers and cup-shaped or barrel-shaped fruit.Eucalyptus michaeliana is a tree that typically grows to a height of 30 m (98 ft) and forms a lignotuber.

It has smooth, mottled, grey and white or cream-coloured bark shed in plates or flakes.

[2][3][4] Eucalyptus michaeliana was first formally described in 1938 by William Blakely from specimens collected by John Fauna Campbell near Hillgrove in 1907.

The description was published in Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales.

[3] Hillgrove gum grows in woodland on sandy soils and has a disjunct distribution between St Albans and Wollomombi in New South Wales and in south-east Queensland.