Slender tree to 9 m tall; bark smooth, whitish or light grey, with a short basal stocking of rough bark. Juvenile leaves petiolate, alternate, elliptic-lanceolate to narrowly lanceolate, to 10 cm long, 2.3 cm wide, slightly discolorous, dull, blue-grey or slightly pruinose; adult leaves petiolate, alternate, lanceolate or ovate-lanceolate, 7–10 cm long, 1.4–2.6 cm wide, somewhat glossy, blue-green; side veins acute; reticulation dense, with numerous, irregular, island and intersectional oil glands. Inflorescences axillary, simple; peduncles to 1.1 cm long, 7–11-flowered; buds pedicellate, ovoid-fusiform, to 0.7 cm long, 0.4 cm diam., no scar; operculum conical; stamens inflexed; anthers adnate, globoid; ovules in 4 vertical rows; flowers white. Fruit shortly pedicellate to pedicellate, cupular, to 0.6 cm long, 0.5 cm diam.; disc descending; valves 3 or 4, below rim; seed dark brown, irregular-oblong, surface finely reticulate, hilum ventral. Flowers autumn.
LoM, GipP. Known from a single population in the Little Desert, growing in mallee woodland in sandy soils.
