Small to medium-sized tree or, in coastal areas, may be a mallee, to 20 m high. Forming a lignotuber.Bark rough, fibrous to flaky, grey or brown. Glands (or ducts) sometimes present in the pith but only seen just below the nodes on young branchlets.Juvenile growth (coppice or field seedlings to 50 cm): stem rounded in cross-section; juvenile leaves opposite, petiolate or sessile, ovate to lanceolate, 5.5–10 cm long, 2–3 cm wide, base amplexicaul to rounded to tapering to petiole, margin entire, apex pointed, green, leaf hairs absent.Adult leaves opposite, petioles 1–2 cm long; blade lanceolate or falcate, 7.5–17 cm long, 1.7–4.5 cm wide, flat, base tapering to petiole, margin entire, apex pointed, discolorous, glossy, green, penniveined, densely to very densely reticulate, intramarginal vein present, oil glands small, island or obscure.Inflorescence terminal compound, peduncles 0.9–3.2 cm long, buds 3 or 7 per umbel, pedicellate, (pedicels 1–1.8 cm long). Mature buds globular (0.6–0.7 cm long, 0.6–0.7 cm wide), hypanthium smooth or hairy, longitudinally ribbed, petals white with a green keel, stamens inflexed, anthers oblong, versatile, dehiscing by longitudinal slits (non-confluent), style long, stigma blunt, mop-like, locules 3 or 4, the placentae each with 5 vertical ovule rows. Flowers white or creamy white.Fruit pedicellate (pedicels 1–2 cm long), cup-shaped, 1.2–1.5 cm long, 0.9–1.6 cm wide, longitudinally ribbed, disc descending, valves 3 or 4, enclosed.Seeds reddish brown to brown, flattened-ellipsoidal, dorsal surface smooth, hilum ventral.
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