Mallee or tree to 8 m. Bark smooth throughout, yellow-brown or yellow-green to grey or grey-brown. Juvenile leaves narrowly to broadly lanceolate, green, concolorous. Adult leaves narrowly lanceolate, uncinate, sometimes slightly falcate; lamina 6.5–10 cm long, 1–1.5 cm wide; lateral veins faint, at c. 30°; intramarginal vein up to 1 mm from margin; petiole terete, 10–20 mm long. Peduncle flattened, 5–10 mm long; pedicels absent. Operculum cylindrical-conical, 10–15 mm long, 4–5 mm wide; hypanthium hemispherical, 3–5 mm long, 4–5 mm wide. Fruits hemispherical, 6–7 mm long, 10–12 mm wide; disc narrow, slightly ascending; valves 3 or 4, broad at base, spreading at maturity.