Tree to 5 m tall or mallee; bark rough, subfibrous on trunk to various heights. Juvenile leaves sessile, opposite, soon becoming subsessile and vertically-orientated, linear-lanceolate to narrow-lanceolate, falcate, 8–13 cm long, 0.8–1.5 cm wide, slightly glossy, green; adult leaves petiolate, alternate, lanceolate, 6–11 cm long, 1–1.6 cm wide, concolorous, glossy, green; lateral veins subparallel; oil glands scattered, mostly island. Inflorescences axillary, unbranched; peduncles 0.5–0.8 cm long, 11–15-flowered; buds sessile or shortly pedicellate, ovoid-clavate, to 0.7 cm long, 0.4 mm diam., no scar (single operculum); operculum obtuse-conical; stamens mostly inflexed; anthers reniform; ovules in 2 vertical rows; flowers white. Fruit subsessile, sometimes sessile, obconical or cupular, 0.4–0.5 cm long, 0.5–0.6 cm diam.; disc level; valves 3 or 4, rim level; seed brown to dark brown, glossy, smooth, pyramidal but distorted by one curved face, hilum terminal. Flowers autumn.
