Slender tree to 15 m tall; bark rough to small branches, thick, furrowed longitudinally, often loosely attached in short strips, dark grey-brown; branchlets white to pale brown. Juvenile leaves sessile to shortly petiolate, opposite for several nodes, linear, falcate, to 8 cm long, 0.9 cm wide, dull glaucous, new growth pruinose, margins crenulate; adult leaves petiolate, alternate, narrowly lanceolate to lanceolate, sometimes falcate, 7–11(–13) cm long, 1.2–1.8 cm wide, concolorous, dull, green to bluish-green; reticulation dense, with numerous, mostly island oil glands. Inflorescences axillary, unbranched; peduncles 1.1 cm long, 7-flowered; buds pedicellate, ovoid or fusiform, to 0.7 cm long, 0.3 cm diam., scar present; operculum conical; stamens irregularly flexed; anthers dorsifixed, cuneate; ovules in 4 vertical rows; flowers white. Fruit pedicellate, hemispherical to slightly obconical, to 0.4 cm long, 0.4 cm diam.; disc slightly ascending; valves 3 or 4, slightly exserted; seed black, flattened-ellipsoid, shallowly reticulate, lacunose, hilum ventral. Flowers autumn.
Gold, CVU. Apparently restricted to the Fryers Range between Castlemaine and Daylesford, on dry shallow soils.
