Tree to 18 m, commonly to 12 m; branchlets glaucous. Bark rough, dark, flaky to 2 m, then smooth, brown-grey above. Juvenile leaves lanceolate, glaucous. Adult leaves lanceolate, sometimes falcate, acuminate, thick; lamina 10–12 cm long, 1.5–2 cm wide, dull, green, glandular; lateral veins just visible, at 25°–30°; intramarginal vein usually almost confluent with margin; petiole terete, 15–20 mm long. Umbels 7-flowered; peduncle slightly flattened or angular, glaucous, 10–12 mm long; pedicels glaucous, 2–6 mm long. Buds broadly fusiform, glaucous; operculum conical, ribbed, 10–15 mm long, 10–12 mm wide; hypanthium obconical, ribbed, 6–7 mm long, 7–9 mm wide. Fruits hemispherical, ribbed, glaucous, 8–10 mm long and wide; valves 3 or 4, exserted.
Grows in sandy or powdery loam, sometimes inalluvial areas, usually on flat country in open and closed woodland.
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