Mallee or tree to 12 m. Bark rough, fibrous, fissured, grey on lower trunk, smooth, grey-brown above. Juvenile leaves opposite, becoming alternate, sessile, lanceolate or elliptic, grey-green, decurrent. Adult leaves narrowly lanceolate, uncinate; lamina 6–9.5 cm long, 0.6–2 cm wide, grey-green, glandular; lateral veins faint, at 40°–50°; intramarginal vein almost confluent with or up to 1 mm from margin; petiole terete, 8–15 mm long. Umbels 7–11-flowered, sometimes more; peduncle terete, 5–12 mm long; pedicels 3–6 mm long. Buds fusiform; operculum conical or rostrate, 5–10 mm long, c. 4 mm wide; hypanthium obconical, 4–6 mm long, c. 4 mm wide. Fruits urceolate or subglobular, 5–8 mm long, 5–7 mm wide; valves 3.