Mallee to 5 m, or tree to 10 m. Bark smooth throughout, grey-white, or sometimes with fibrous bark to c. 1 m at base. Juvenile leaves elliptic to elliptic-lanceolate, subcrenulate, green, discolorous. Adult leaves lanceolate, sometimes falcate, subcrenulate, acute or acuminate; lamina 7.5–13 cm long, 1.2–2.5 cm wide, green; lateral veins faint, at 45°–50°; intramarginal vein distinct, up to 1 mm from margin; petiole terete or slightly flattened, 15–20 mm long. Umbels 7-flowered; peduncle slightly flattened, 7–15 mm long; pedicels 5–10 mm long. Buds fusiform to obovoid; operculum conical, hemispherical or slightly rostrate, 3–4 mm long, 5–6 mm wide; hypanthium obconical or cylindrical, 4–5 mm long, 5–6 mm wide. Fruits obconical to cylindrical, 6–9 mm long, 6–8 mm wide; disc moderately broad, level, slightly ascending or slightly descending; valves 3–5, level, slightly exserted or slightly included.
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