Tree to 25 m, occasionally a mallee to 6 m. Bark smooth throughout, white or grey to grey-red, with an accumulation of decorticating, subfibrous bark sometimes at base of older trees. Juvenile leaves alternate, petiolate or opposite, sessile, decurrent, ovate, blue-green. Adult leaves lanceolate to narrowly lanceolate, acuminate; lamina 7–15 cm long, 1–2.2 cm wide, blue-grey or grey-green, dull, glandular; lateral veins faint, at 30°–40°; intramarginal vein up to 2 mm from margin; petiole terete, 15–25 mm long. Umbels 7-flowered; peduncle terete or angled, 7–13 mm long; pedicels 4–7 mm long. Buds glaucous; operculum hemispherical at base, narrowly rostrate, 8–13 mm long, 5–6 mm wide; hypanthium cylindrical or suburceolate, 4–5 mm long, 5–6 mm wide. Fruits subglobular to urceolate, 6–11 mm long and wide, usually glaucous; valves usually 3, but up to 5.
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A stunted tree. It grows 2-15 m high. The bark can be smooth or rough. The flowers are yellow and white.
Usually growing in red sandy loam on flat country, withthe mallee form on low hills, in open forest and woodland.
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Flats and low hills, growing on red sand, red sandy loam, calcareous loam and brown clay loam soils.
It grows on red sandy loams and low hills.
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