It normally has a solitary straight trunk and an open, moderately dense crown that reaches a width of about 9 m (30 ft).

[2][3][4][5] Eucalyptus rossii was first formally described in 1902 by the botanist Richard Thomas Baker and chemist Henry George Smith in A Research on the Eucalypts especially in regard to their Essential Oils.

The specific epithet (rossii) honours William John Clunies-Ross (1850-1914), for his attention to the flora of the Bathurst region.

They are part of open dry sclerophyll woodland communities and associated species include E. haemastoma and E.

[3] These trees usually have scribble marks on the bark formed by the burrowing larvae of a small moth, Ogmograptis scribula.