Tree to 40 m. Bark fibrous, compact, dark grey up to 10 m, smooth and white above, usually with insect ‘scribbles’. Juvenile leaves ovate to broadly lanceolate, light grey or blue-green, concolorous. Adult leaves narrowly lanceolate to lanceolate, falcate, acuminate or uncinate, usually oblique; lamina 8–16 cm long, 1–2 cm wide, green, concolorous; lateral veins faint, at 15°–30°; intramarginal vein 1–2 mm from margin; petiole flattened or channelled, 10–15 mm long. Umbels 7–11-flowered; peduncle angular or flattened, 5–18 mm long; pedicels 1–6 mm long. Buds clavate; operculum conical or hemispherical, apiculate, often warty, 1–2 mm long, 3–4 mm wide; hypanthium hemispherical or obconical, 3–4 mm long and wide. Fruits urceolate or subglobular, 7–11 mm long, 6–11 mm wide; disc moderately broad, descending; valves 4 or 5, included. Seeds black.
Sclerophyllous forest on cool, moist mountain slopes or peaks; at elevations from 150 -1,000 metres. Mountain slopes and tablelands; at elevations up to 900 metres.
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Usually growing on cool, moist slopes ormountain tops, often in pure stands in wet sclerophyll forest.
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