Mallee to 2 m. Bark smooth throughout or with persistent loose strips, pale grey or brown. Juvenile leaves linear to narrowly obovate, green. Adult leaves elliptic to lanceolate, slightly falcate, uncinate; lamina 5–7 cm long, 0.6–0.9 cm wide, green; lateral veins faint, at 15°–20°; intramarginal vein up to 2 mm from margin, giving impression of being 3-veined; petiole terete or flattened, 5–7 mm long. Umbels 3–7-flowered; peduncle terete or quadrangular, 5–10 mm long; pedicels slender, 2–5 mm long. Buds clavate; operculum conical or hemispherical, 2–3 mm long, 3–4 mm wide; hypanthium obconical or urceolate, 4–6 mm long and wide. Fruits ovoid, 5–8 mm long, 7–8 mm wide; disc broad, descending; valves 4.