Tree or mallee to 8 m. Bark smooth throughout, yellow-brown to grey or grey-pink. Juvenile leaves broadly lanceolate to ovate, green, concolorous. Adult leaves lanceolate, acuminate; lamina 8–11.5 cm long, 1.5–3 cm wide; lateral veins just visible or faint, at 20°–30°; intramarginal vein up to 2 mm from margin; petiole terete, 20–30 mm long. Peduncle terete, 15–25 mm long; pedicels slender, 4–6 mm long. Operculum conical, up to 12-ribbed, 20–25 mm long, 8–10 mm wide; hypanthium obconical, ribbed, 8–15 mm long, 8–10 mm wide. Fruits cylindrical or subpyriform, ribbed, 12–15 mm long, 10–15 mm wide; disc broad, convex; valves 4.