Small to medium-sized tree; bark smooth and grey, or sometimes hard and persistent near base. Young shoots and young lvs glaucous-white, the lvs becoming glaucescent at maturity, peppermint-scented. Juvenile lvs opposite, sessile, broad-ovate or ovate; base cordate. Adult lvs with slender petiole 5-15-(20) mm long; lamina 6-13 × 0.8-2 cm, narrowly elliptic-lanceolate, ± falcate, concolorous, subcoriaceous; lateral veins diverging at angles of 20-50° from midrib; base cuneate, symmetric; apex mucronate or acute. Umbels axillary, of (6)-8-13 fls; peduncles 5-8 mm long, terete; pedicels very short. Buds c. 5 mm long, glaucous-white, clavate; operculum hemispheric, much < hypanthium. Stamens white; anthers reniform. Fr. shortly pedicellate, 5-8 × 6-9 mm, pyriform to sub-hemispheric, glaucous-white; valves 4, level with capsule rim or slightly sunken; disc c. 2 mm wide, flat or somewhat oblique.