Mallee to 10 m. Bark rough, fibrous, dark grey on lower stems, then smooth and grey to pink-grey above. Juvenile leaves linear, the petioles difficult to distinguish from leaf base, green, concolorous. Adult leaves linear to narrowly lanceolate, uncinate; lamina 6–10 cm long, 0.4–0.8 cm wide, slightly shining, dark green; lateral veins faint, at 15°–25°; intramarginal vein up to 1 mm from margin; petiole terete or slightly flattened, 5–10 mm long. Conflorescence usually axillary, simple, rarely terminal, paniculate; umbels 7-flowered; peduncle quadrangular, 5–8 mm long; pedicels 2–4 mm long. Buds fusiform; operculum conical, 2–3 mm long and wide; hypanthium obconical, 2–3 mm long and wide. Fruits hemispherical to subglobular, 2–4 mm long, 3–4 mm wide; disc narrow, descending; valves 4, included.
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