Tree usually to 35 m, sometimes to 45 m. Bark fibrous, hard, furrowed, dark grey to black on trunk and on bases of larger branches, then smooth and white above. Juvenile leaves ovate, grey-or blue-green. Adult leaves lanceolate, acuminate; lamina 9–15 cm long, 1.2–2.8 cm wide, shining, green; lateral veins prominent, at 15°–30°; intramarginal vein up to 3 mm from margin; petiole channelled, 13–18 mm long. Umbels 7–15-flowered; peduncle angular or flattened, 8–16 mm long; pedicels 1–4 mm long. Operculum hemispherical, apiculate, 1–2 mm long, 3–4 mm wide; hypanthium obconical, 2–4 mm long, 3–4 mm wide. Fruits obconical or pyriform, 8–12 mm long, 7–9 mm wide; disc level, just descending or slightly convex; valves 3, just included or level. Seeds brown-black.
Mainly on coastal lowlands, on slopes with poor to fairly good soils; at elevations up to 500 metres in Tasmania and to 1,000 metres in mainland Australia. A component of dry sclerophyll forest usually on impoverished sandy and gravelly soils.
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Often growing in pure stands in open forest or tall open forest.
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