Tree or mallee to 9 m. Bark smooth throughout, grey or brown-grey, sometimes up to 3 m of rough, flaky, basal bark. Juvenile leaves lanceolate. Adult leaves narrowly lanceolate, acuminate; lamina 6–10 cm long, 1–2 cm wide, shining, pale green; lateral veins faint, at 25°–35°; intramarginal vein up to 1 mm from margin; petiole terete, 10–15 mm long. Umbels 3–7-flowered; peduncle slightly flattened, 5–10 mm long; pedicels 4–6 mm long. Buds clavate; operculum hemispherical, flat-topped or apiculate, slightly corrugated or sometimes smooth, 2–4 mm long, 5–6 mm wide; hypanthium hemispherical, often 2-ribbed, 5–6 mm long, 4–5 mm wide. Fruits subpyriform, hemispherical or subcampanulate, 6–10 mm long and wide; disc obliquely descending; valves 4, just exserted.
Grows in sand andsandy loam, sometimes on sandhills and near salt lakes, in open woodland andshrubland.
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