Shrub to 3 m, straggling. Bark smooth throughout, grey or yellow-grey or some rough at base. Juvenile leaves decussate, sessile or shortly petiolate, elliptic to ovate, glaucous, slightly discolorous. Intermediate leaves alternate, petiolate, oblong to lanceolate; lamina 4.5–9 cm long, 1–1.8 cm wide, yellow-green; lateral veins faint, at 40°–50°; intramarginal vein up to 1 mm from margin; petiole terete, 4–6 mm long. Adult leaves not formed, the mature canopy comprising lower juvenile leaves and upper intermediate leaves. Umbels 7-flowered; peduncle quadrangular, 5–10 mm long; pedicels terete to quadrangular, 1–2 mm long. Buds fusiform; operculum conical or slightly rostrate, 3–4 mm long and wide; hypanthium obconical, 4–5 mm long, 3–4 mm wide. Fruits subglobular, 4–5 mm long, 5–6 mm wide; valves exserted.