Tree or mallee to c. 20 m tall; bark rough on lower part of main stems, fibrous, thin, grey, usually persistent. Juvenile leaves sessile or shortly petioleate, opposite for many pairs, broadly lanceolate to ovate, to 14 cm long, 9 cm wide, discolorous, glossy, green above; adult leaves petiolate, alternate, lanceolate, 12–30 cm long, (1.5–)2–4.5 cm wide, concolorous, dark green, slightly glossy, reticulation dense, with numerous island and intersectional oil glands. Inflorescences axillary, unbranched; peduncles flattened, to 2.4 cm long, 7-flowered; buds subsessile to shortly pedicellate, cylindric with conical operculum, angle often continuing from pedicel along hypanthium, to c. 1 cm long, 0.5 cm diam., scar present; stamens irregularly flexed; anthers oblong; ovules in 4 vertical rows; flowers white. Fruit sessile or pedicellate, cylindric to truncate-ovoid, to 1 cm long, 0.9 cm diam.; disc descending; valves 3, rim level or below; seed dark brownish-black, flattened-ellipsoid, shallowly reticulate, hilum ventral.
