Tree to 60 m tall; bark smooth, white, grey, yellowish, sometimes pink or green. Juvenile leaves sessile, opposite for many pairs, orbicular, to 5 cm long and wide, pale green, more or less glaucous growing tips; adult leaves petiolate, alternate, lanceolate to narrowly lanceolate, usually undulate, 10–21 cm long, 1–2.5 cm wide, concolorous, glossy and green or dull grey-green; reticulation dense, with scattered, often obscure, oil glands. Inflorescences axillary, unbranched; peduncles to 0.8 cm long, 3-flowered; buds shortly pedicellate, ovoid, to 0.8 cm long, 0.5 cm diam., scar present; operculum conical; stamens irregularly flexed; anthers dorsifixed, cuneate; ovules in 4 vertical rows; flowers white. Fruit shortly pedicellate, cupular, obconical or hemispherical, to 0.3–0.8 cm long, 0.9 cm diam.; disc slightly ascending to annular; valves 3(4), slightly exserted; seed brown to blackish, flattened-ellipsoid, shallowly reticulate, lacunose, hilum ventral.
Wim, VVP, Gold, CVU, GGr, NIS, EGU, HSF, HNF, MonT, HFE, VAlp. Also SA, NSW, ACT, Tas.