Mallee to 5 m, occasionally a tree to 8 m. Bark smooth, grey to brown, often with an accumulation of shedding bark at base of trunk. Juvenile leaves opposite, lanceolate, green. Adult leaves narrowly lanceolate to lanceolate, moderately thick; lamina 4–8 cm long, 0.4–1 cm wide, shining, green; lateral veins faint, at 45°–50°; intramarginal vein almost confluent with or up to 1 mm from margin; petiole terete, 5–10 mm long. Umbels 7–13-flowered; peduncle quadrangular, 6–8 mm long; pedicels terete, 2–4 mm long. Buds fusiform; operculum conical, 3–4 mm long and wide; hypanthium obconical, 3–4 mm long and wide. Fruits hemispherical or subglobular, 3–6 mm long and wide; valves exserted.