
The taxon was formally described in 1938 and given the name Eucalyptus divaricata.[1] In 2001 it was reclassified as a subspecies of Eucalyptus gunnii. The name Eucalyptus gunnii subsp. divaricata is used by the Tasmanian Herbarium in their Tasmanian Vascular Plant Census in 2011 and is an accepted name in the World Checklist of Selected Plant Families.[2][3] The Australian Plant Census of 2006, however, regarded it as a synonym of Eucalptus gunnii.[4]