It is a mid-sized tree with egg-shaped to lance-shaped leaves, racemes of cream-coloured flowers and blue fruit.

Elaeocarpus eumundi is a tree that typically grows to a height of 12–25 m (39–82 ft) with fibrous bark, and sometimes has buttress roots at the base of the trunk.

The midvein on the upper surface is prominent and the leaves turn yellow rather than red, as they age.

Flowering occurs from November to December and the fruit is a blue, oval drupe about 15 mm (0.59 in) long.

[2][3][4] Elaeocarpus eumundi was first formally described in 1894 by Frederick Manson Bailey in Proceedings of the Royal Society of Queensland.