Mallee to 4 m. Bark smooth throughout, grey-brown. Juvenile leaves broadly lanceolate to ovate. Adult leaves narrowly lanceolate to lanceolate, uncinate; lamina 6–9 cm long, 1–1.5 cm wide, shining, green; lateral veins at 30°–50°; intramarginal vein up to 2 mm from margin; petiole terete, 7–10 mm long. Umbels 7–11-flowered; peduncle quadrangular, 10–15 mm long; pedicels 2–4 mm long. Buds clavate to subpyriform; operculum hemispherical or shallowly conical, 1–2 mm long, 3–4 mm wide; hypanthium obconical, 3–5 mm long, 3–4 mm wide. Fruits obconical, barrel-shaped or ovoid, 5–8 mm long, 4–5 mm wide; valves 3, sometimes 4.