Mallee or tree to 10 m. Bark smooth throughout, grey to pink-white. Juvenile leaves ovate to ovate-lanceolate. Adult leaves lanceolate, falcate, uncinate; lamina 9–12 cm long, 1.4–2 cm wide, grey-green; lateral veins faint, at 30°–40°; intramarginal vein up to 1 mm from margin; petiole terete or quadrangular, 12–22 mm long. Umbels 7–11-flowered; peduncle angular, dilated upwards, 7–10 mm long; pedicels 2–3 mm long. Buds obconical; operculum hemispherical to obtusely conical, striate, 4–6 mm long and wide; hypanthium obconical, striate, 3–5 mm long, 4–6 mm wide. Fruits obconical or pyriform, striate, 5–7 mm long, 5–8 mm wide; valves usually 4, sometimes 6, level or slightly exserted.