Mallee to 8 m tall. Forming a lignotuber.Bark smooth throughout, light grey to white-grey over tan or pinkish, and cream, shedding seasonally in long ribbons.Branchlets non-glaucous; brown oil glands present in the pith but may be difficult to find except where leaves arise from stems.Juvenile growth (coppice or field seedlings to 50 cm): poorly known; the following taken from Hill et al (2001): leaves disjunct [alternate] on stem, petiolate, ovate to orbiculate, to 7 cm long, 4.5 cm wide, glaucous.Adult leaves alternate, petioles 1–2.2 cm long; blade lanceolate to narrowly so, 7–10(11.8) cm long, 0.8–1.4(2) cm wide, base tapering to petiole, margin entire, apex pointed, dull, mid-green to blue-green or grey-green, concolorous, side veins acute up to about 45° to midrib, reticulation dense, intramarginal vein close to margin, oil glands intersectional.Inflorescence axillary unbranched, peduncles more or less angular, 0.4–1.5 cm long, buds 7(9) per umbel, pedicellate, pedicels 0.2–0.5 cm long. Mature buds cylindrical to ellipsoid, less commonly ovoid (0.7–0.9 cm long, 0.4–0.5 cm wide), non-glaucous, scar present (outer operculum shed early), inner operculum rounded to slightly flattened and weakly striate, narrower than hypanthium at the join or as wide, stamens regularly inflexed, cuboid to wedge shaped versatile anthers, dorsifixed, dehiscing by longitudinal slits, style long and straight, stigma blunt, locules 4(5), the placentae each with 4 vertical rows of ovules. Flowers not seen.Fruit pedicellate, pedicels 0.2–0.4 cm long, cupular or shortly barrel-shaped to cylindrical, 0.5–0.8 cm long, 0.5–0.7 cm wide, disc descending obliquely to vertically, valves 4(5), near rim level.Seeds reddish brown and glossy, 1–2 mm long, flattened-ovoid and sometimes slightly angular in outline, dorsal surface shallowly reticulate, hilum ventral.Cultivated seedlings (measured at ca node 10): cotyledons reniform; not grown further.
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