It has rough bark on the lower stems and larger branches, broadly lance-shaped to broadly egg-shaped adult leaves, flower buds in group of nine to thirteen, pale yellow flowers and cup-shaped to barrel-shaped fruit.

Eucalyptus vokesensis is a mallee that typically grows to a height of 7 m (23 ft) and forms a lignotuber.

Young plants and coppice regrowth have stems that are usually square in cross-section and leaves that are egg-shaped to lance-shaped or elliptical and usually glaucous.

The type specimens were collected by Joseph Zvonko Weber (1930-1996), 130 km (81 mi) north of Cook on the road to Vokes Hill.

[4] The species is endemic to an arid area of western South Australia in the Great Victoria Desert where it grows in deep red sandy soils on and around sand dunes and broad swales in open mallee communities.