Mallee to 5 m. Bark smooth, brown to grey-brown, often with ribbons of shedding bark accumulated at base of stems. Juvenile leaves decussate or opposite, narrowly lanceolate to lanceolate, green, discolorous. Adult leaves narrowly lanceolate, thick; lamina 7–11 cm long, 0.8–1.8 cm wide, green; lateral veins faint, at 40°–50°; intramarginal vein up to 1 mm from margin; petiole terete or flattened, 10–15 mm long. Umbels 7–11-flowered; peduncle slightly flattened or angular, 7–12 mm long; pedicels angular or quadrangular, 2–4 mm long. Buds fusiform; operculum conical, 5–6 mm long and wide; hypanthium obconical, 4–5 mm long, 5–6 mm wide. Fruits hemispherical, subglobular or ovoid, 6–8 mm long, 5–6 mm wide; valves exserted.
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