It has thin, fibrous or flaky bark, lance-shaped leaves with the narrower end towards the base, white flowers arranged singly on short side shoots and fruit remain on the plant at maturity.

It has thin, rough, fibrous or flaky bark, the young stems silky hairy at first with a broad flange near the leaf base.

Flowering mainly in November and the fruit is a capsule 4–5 m (13–16 ft) wide that remains on the plant at maturity.

[4][5] Wurunuru grows on windswept ridges on the mountains north-west of Mossman, in the Mount Spurgeon-Mount Lewis area and in the Bellenden Ker Range in north Queensland.

[2] This teatree is sometimes grown in gardens, is suitable for heavy shade and is frost hardy but requires cool, moist conditions.