Spreading tree or tall mallee to 12 m tall; bark rough over whole trunk and to base of larger branches, grey, box-type; smooth, grey-brown above. Juvenile leaves petiolate, alternate, narrowly lanceolate, to 8 cm long, 3 cm wide, dull, blue-green or green; adult leaves petiolate, alternate, lanceolate, 6–10 cm long, 1.2–2.2 cm wide, glossy, green or olive-green; reticulation moderate to dense, with numerous, mostly island oil glands. Inflorescences axillary, simple; peduncles to 1 cm long, (5–)7(–9)-flowered; buds pedicellate, fusiform or clavate, to 0.5 cm long, 0.4 cm diam., no scar; operculum conical; stamens irregularly flexed; anthers adnate, globoid; ovules in 4 vertical rows; flowers white. Fruit pedicellate, obconical, subcylindrical or cupular, to 0.5 cm long, 0.4 cm diam.; disc descending; valves 4 (rarely 3 or 5), below rim; seed dark brown, ovoid and slightly flattened, surface finely reticulate, helium ventral. Flowers autumn.
Wim. Also SA. Scattered in the western Wimmera region from Bordertown and Bangham in South Australia to Yanac, occurs on relatively fertile, well-drained rises. .
