Tree to 25 m, sometimes a mallee to 10 m. Bark rough, hard, deeply furrowed, dark grey or black on trunk and larger branches, then smooth, grey or grey-brown above. Juvenile leaves alternate, petiolate, orbicular to ovate, green, discolorous. Adult leaves lanceolate to broadly lanceolate, acuminate; lamina 8–14 cm long, 1–2.7 cm wide, shining; lateral veins conspicuous, at 30°–40°; intramarginal vein up to 2 mm from margin; petiole flattened or channelled, 5–15 mm long. Umbels usually 11–15-flowered; peduncle 17–30 mm long. Buds horn-shaped or narrowly cylindrical, often shortly pedicellate; operculum horn-shaped, 17–30 mm long, 5–10 mm wide; hypanthium hemispherical, faintly ribbed, 4–8 mm long, 5–10 mm wide. Fruits hemispherical or campanulate, crowded, 7–14 mm long, 6–13 mm wide; disc obsure; valves 3, exserted.
Grows in moist valleysand on coastal hills, as scattered trees in open forest, often by graniteoutcrops.
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Scattered in moist, fertile valleys near the coast and on coastal sands; at elevations up to 300 metres.
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