Mallee or tree to 9 m. Bark grey-brown. Juvenile leaves broadly ovate to suborbicular, cordate or almost so, green, minutely hairy, discolorous. Adult leaves broadly lanceolate, sometimes falcate, mucronate or apiculate; lamina 7.5–11 cm long, 2–3 cm wide, shining, green, concolorous; lateral veins just visible, at 25°–40°; intramarginal vein up to 2 mm from margin; petiole channelled, 10–15 mm long. Umbels 7–11-flowered or sometimes more; peduncle thick, terete or flattened, 5–10 mm long; pedicels absent. Buds ovoid, angular; operculum hemispherical to conical, 3–4 mm long and wide; hypanthium hemispherical, 3–4 mm long and wide. Fruits hemispherical or subglobular, 4–6 mm long, 6–9 mm wide; disc broad, convex, ascending; valves 3 or 4, level or exserted.