Tree to 45 m with rough grey to grey-black ironbark on trunk and at least larger branches [hard, deeply furrowed] but sometimes smooth above.. Juvenile leaves ovate to broadly lanceolate; adult lanceolate, 8–15 cm long, 1–2 cm wide; petiole terete, 1–1.7 cm long.. Umbels 7-flowered in terminal panicles; peduncle quadrangular, 6–12[23] mm long; pedicels [0]2–4 mm long.. Buds fusiform; operculum conical, 3–4 mm long and wide, sometimes rostrate.. Calyx-tube obconic, 2–4 mm long, 3–4 mm wide.. Fruits obconical, [4]6–8 mm long, [4.5]5–7[7.5] mm wide with narrow descending disc and usually 4 exserted valves [usually rugose and ribbed].. Fig. 10/38.