Mallee to 2 m. Bark smooth throughout, grey, with insect ‘scribbles’. Juvenile leaves linear-lanceolate, shining, green, discolorous, glandular. Adult leaves narrowly lanceolate, acuminate or uncinate, thick; lamina 4–10 cm long, 0.3–0.8 cm wide, shining, green, slightly discolorous; lateral and intramarginal veins indistinct; petiole channelled, 4–8 mm long. Umbels 7-flowered; peduncle terete, 3–8 mm long; pedicels 2–3 mm long. Buds clavate; operculum conical, warty 1–2 mm long, 3–4 mm wide; hypanthium obconical, 3–4 mm long and wide. Fruits subglobular or suburceolate, 5–7 mm long and wide; disc moderately broad, descending; valves usually 3, included. Seeds brown.
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