Voucher specimen D.Nicolle 6284 (original + F1 seedlings).
Tree 6 to 20 metres tall. Bark rough to small to medium branches, conspicuously smooth above. Adult leaves concolorous, glossy, green. Growing on very rocky, steep ridge with some Eucalyptus aff. radiata, E. sieberi and E. stricta.
Seedling leaves ovate, discolorous, glossy, green, scabrid. Stems terete, densely scabrid.