Eucalyptus dalrympleana is a medium-sized to tall tree species of mountain country in far south-eastern Queensland, New South Wales, Victoria and South Australia (Mt Lofty Range only) and on upper slopes and plateaus in Tasmania. It is essentially smooth-barked but often with a very short stocking of ± persistent bark on the base of the trunk, and is essentially non-glaucous, having a crown of green lanceolate leaves, axillary clusters of buds, in threes in subsp.