Mallee to 4 m. Bark pink-grey, white-grey or grey. Juvenile leaves ovate, dull, green, concolorous or slightly discolorous. Adult leaves narrowly lanceolate to lanceolate, sometimes falcate, uncinate; lamina 6–12 cm long, 1–2 cm wide, shining, green; lateral veins clearly visible, at 35°–45°; intramarginal vein up to 1.5 mm from margin; petiole terete, 10–20 mm long. Peduncle 5–12 mm long; pedicels absent or to 3 mm long. Buds obovoid to clavate; operculum hemispherical to conical, 3–5 mm long, 4–6 mm wide; hypanthium obconical to subcylindrical, 6–10 mm long, 4–5 mm wide. Fruits cylindrical to obconical, 8–15 mm long, 7–9 mm wide; disc broad, steeply descending; valves 3–5, included.
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