Position in a system
| system | Vitae - living organisms |
| domain | Eukaryota Whittaker & Margulis, 1978 - lifeforms with nucletic cells |
| superregnum | Bikonta - bikonts |
| Corticata | |
| Archaeplastida | |
| kingdom | Plantae Haeckel - plants |
| divisio | Magnoliophyta Cronquist, Takht. & W.Zimm. - flowering plants |
| class | Rosopsida Batsch - eudicots |
| order | Myrtales Reichenbach |
| family | Myrtaceae Juss. |
| subfamily | Myrtoideae Sweet |
| genus | Eucalyptus L'Héritier de Brutelle, 1789 - gum |
| species | Eucalyptus astringens (Maiden) Maiden - Brown Mallet |
| subspecies | Eucalyptus astringens subsp. redacta Brooker & Hopper |