Tree to ca 15 m tall. Forming a lignotuber.Bark smooth throughout, sometimes powdery, white or cream to very pale grey or pink-orange.Branchlets lack oil glands in the pith; smooth.Juvenile growth (coppice or field seedlings to 50 cm): not seen. Adult leaves alternate, petiolate, petioles 0.5–2.2 cm long; blade lanceolate, 7–17.5 cm long, 0.7–2.5(4.5) cm wide, undulate and twisted, base tapering to petiole, apex pointed, margin entire, concolorous, glossy, green, smooth, side-veins about 45° to midrib, reticulation dense to very dense, intramarginal vein present, oil glands obscure.Inflorescence axillary compound, condensed, the rhachis usually with only the basal internode obvious, 0.1–0.5 cm long, peduncles usually very short, ca 0–0.5(1.4) cm long, buds 3 or 7 per umbel, pedicels 0.2–0.7 cm long. Mature buds pyriform to globular, 0.5–0.6 cm long, 0.3–0.4 cm wide, surface smooth and glossy, scar present (outer operculum shed during bud development), operculum rounded to flattened, stamens inflexed, all fertile, anthers oblong, dorsifixed, versatile, dehiscing by longitudinal slits, style long and straight, stigma tapering, locules 3, the placentae each with ovules arranged in ± 3 or 5 vertical rows or the rows indistinct. Flowers creamy white.Fruit pedicellate (pedicels 0.2–1 cm long), cupular to cylindrical or barrel-shaped, 0.6–0.9 cm long, 0.5–0.9 cm wide, thin-walled, smooth, disc descending vertically, valves 3, enclosed.Seeds not seen (presumably brown, saucer-shaped, smooth on both surfaces, hilum ventral, like other ghost gums).Cultivated seedlings (measured at ca node 10): not grown.
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