Tree or mallee to 6 m. Bark smooth, red-brown to white or grey, with up to 0.6 m of flaky or scaly basal bark. Juvenile leaves lanceolate. Adult leaves lanceolate, acuminate or uncinate; lamina 10–13 cm long, 1–2.5 cm wide, shining, pale green or grey-green; lateral veins faint, at 35°–45°; intramarginal vein up to 1 mm from margin; petiole terete, 12–20 mm long. Umbels 3-flowered; peduncle angular, 10–14 mm long; pedicels 5–9 mm long. Buds clavate; operculum hemispherical, flat-topped, corrugated, 3–5 mm long, 8–12 mm wide; hypanthium campanulate, 2-ribbed, 6–10 mm long, 8–12 mm wide. Fruits campanulate, 2-ribbed, 8–14 mm long, 9–15 mm wide; disc shallowly descending, moderately broad; valves 4, strongly exserted.