It has smooth grey bark, lance-shaped adult leaves, flower buds in groups of seven and cup-shaped, barrel-shaped or cylindrical fruit.

Eucalyptus wubinensis is a mallee that typically grows to a height of 8 m (26 ft) and forms a lignotuber.

It has smooth white or greyish bark with bronze or brown streaks and is shed in long ribbons.

The flower buds are arranged in leaf axils in groups of seven, sometimes nine, on an unbranched peduncle 4–15 mm (0.16–0.59 in) long, the individual buds on pedicels 2–5 mm (0.079–0.197 in) long.

[3][4][5] Eucalyptus wubinensis was first formally described in 2001 by Lawrie Johnson and Ken Hill from specimens collected near Wubin in 1983.