Mallee to 6 m or tree. Bark smooth throughout, grey-brown. Juvenile leaves alternate, petiolate, lanceolate-ovate, pale green. Adults leaves alternate, lanceolate to broadly lanceolate, acuminate; lamina 7–10 cm long, 1.2–2.5 cm wide, dull, grey-green; lateral veins clearly visible, at 35°–45°; intramarginal vein up to 1 mm from margin; petiole terete, 15–20 mm long. Umbels 3-flowered; peduncle terete, thick, 6–12 mm long; pedicels absent or to 2 mm long. Buds globular to ovoid; operculum hemispherical, shortly rostrate, 6–10 mm long, 9–12 mm wide; hypanthium hemispherical, 5–8 mm long, 9–12 mm wide. Fruits subglobular, obconical or hemispherical, 10–12 mm long, 12–18 mm wide, usually sessile; disc ascending; valves 4, exserted. Seeds irregularly crescent-shaped or orbicular, brown.
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