Tree or mallee to 8 m. Bark cream-yellow or white. Juvenile leaves subopposite or alternate, broadly lanceolate, green, discolorous. Adult leaves alternate, narrowly to broadly lanceolate, sometimes falcate, acuminate, thick; lamina 10–18 cm long, usually 1–2 cm wide, occasionally to 3.5 cm wide, green or grey-green, concolorous; lateral veins visible to faint, at 30°–40°; intramarginal vein up to 1 mm from margin; petiole angular, 12–20 mm long. Umbels 7-flowered; peduncle thick, terete, 5–12 mm long; pedicels absent or up to 2 mm long. Buds ovoid; operculum hemispherical to conical, 3–4 mm long and wide; hypanthium obconical, angular, 3–4 mm long and wide. Fruits hemispherical or turbinate, sometimes 2-ribbed, 4–6 mm long, 5–6 mm wide; disc convex; valves 4, prominently exserted.
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