Small tree to 8 m tall. Forming a lignotuber.Soft corky pale grey ironbark to small branches, branchlets not glaucous.Juvenile growth (coppice or field seedlings to 50 cm): stem ± square in cross-section, not glaucous; juvenile leaves always petiolate, opposite for 3 to 6 pairs then alternate, ovate, 3.5–11 cm long, (1.8)2.5–5(6) cm wide, base tapering to petiole, dull grey-green to green.Adult leaves alternate, petiole 0.8–2.5 cm long; blade broadly lanceolate to lanceolate, 6–11 cm long, 1.5–3.8 cm wide, base tapering to petiole, concolorous, dull, green to grey-green, side-veins c. 45° to midrib, densely to very densely reticulate, intramarginal vein parallel to and just within margin, oil glands obscure.Inflorescence terminal compound and some axillary single umbels, peduncle erect, 0.7–1.5(1.8) cm long; buds 7 per umbel, pedicels 0.6–0.9 cm long, sometimes the edges extending longitudinally along the hypanthium to form two ridges. Mature buds obovoid to ± diamond shaped, 0.7–0.9 cm long, 0.35–0.45 cm wide, not glaucous, scar present, operculum conical, often narrower than the hypanthium at the join, stamens inflexed, with outer staminodes, anthers adnate, positioned obliquely at filament tip, cuboid, dehiscing by terminal pores, style long, stigma pin-head shaped, locules 3 or 4, the placentae each with 4 vertical ovule rows. Flowers white.Fruit on pedicels 0.3–0.6 cm long, barrel-shaped to obconical, 0.6–0.9 cm long, 0.5–0.7 cm wide, not ridged, ribbed or angled longitudinally, not glaucous, disc descending vertically, valves 3 or 4, enclosed.Seeds dark brown, 1.5–2 mm long, flattened-ovoid, often pointed at one end, dorsal surface shallowly pitted, hilum ventral. Cultivated seedlings (measured at ca node 10): not grown at time of publication.
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