Mallee to 5 m, or tree to 9 m. Bark fibrous, grey-brown to grey to 1–3 m, smooth and white-grey or yellow-grey above. Juvenile leaves narrowly lanceolate, uncinate, green. Adult leaves linear to narrowly lanceolate, uncinate; lamina 5–10 cm long, 0.3–1 cm wide, dull, grey-green; lateral veins faint, at 30°–40°; intramarginal vein up to 1 mm from margin; petiole flattened, 2–10 mm long. Umbels 7–11-flowered; peduncle terete, 2–8 mm long; pedicels absent or to 2 mm long. Buds ovoid to fusiform; operculum conical, 4–6 mm long, 3–5 mm wide; hypanthium hemispherical, 2–4 mm long, 3–5 mm wide. Fruits hemispherical, 5–6 mm long, 5–8 mm wide; disc broad, level or obliquely descending; valves 3 or 4.