There are oil glands present in the branchlet pith. The leaves are long and wide with their bases surrounding the branchlet. They are borne almost horizontally from the branchlet. The leaf shape tapers to the leaf stalk where it joins the branchlet. Evergreen trees with lauroid leaves subopposite or alternate, or clustered at apex of branchlet, pinninerved. The compound leaf stalk is brown and hairy, swollen where it joins the branchlet. The dull green phyllodes are sometimes continuous with the branchlet but are more often articulate. The branchlet tips are pink to purplish-red. At all ages, it is readily distinguished by the pendulous branchlet tips. At all ages, it is distinguished by the slightly pendulous branchlet tips. The leaves are arranged in flattened branchlet systems, with the branchlets in one plane. An erect shrub with 2-4 flowers held erect in leaf axils at branchlet apex.