Large shrub (mallee) to small tree, 1.5–8 m high. Forming a lignotuber.Bark rough to the small branches, fibrous, grey to grey-brown. Oil glands not seen in the pith but expected to be found on young branchlets at the nodes.Juvenile stem rounded in cross-section, pubescent; juvenile leaves opposite, sessile, ovate, 10–14 cm long, 4–6 cm wide, base amplexicaul, margin entire, apex acute, green, pubescent or glabrous.Adult leaves opposite, sessile (or rarely petiolate), petioles 0–0.4 cm long; blade ovate to elliptical to cordate, 5–11.5 cm long, 2–6 cm wide, usually thick and rigid, undulate to flat, base amplexicaul, margin entire or occasionally crenulate, apex usually rounded, sometimes acute, discolorous, slightly glossy, green to olive green to dull grey-green, penniveined, very densely reticulate, intramarginal vein present or absent, oil glands obscure or apparently absent, lamina glabrous to moderately pubescent.Inflorescence terminal compound, peduncles 1.5–7 cm long, buds 3 or 7 per umbel, pedicellate (pedicels 0.8–3.2 cm long). Mature buds globular (0.9–1.3 cm long, 0.7–1.3 cm wide), hypanthium pubescent, longitudinally ribbed, petals white with a green keel, stamens inflexed, anthers oblong, versatile, dehiscing by longitudinal slits (non-confluent), style long, stigma blunt, mop-like, locules 3 or 4, the placentae each with 5 vertical ovule rows. Flowers white to creamy white, or yellow to lemon, or pink (rarely).Fruit pedicellate (pedicels 0.8–3.6 cm long), cup-shaped, 1.5–2.6 cm long, 1.3–2 cm wide, longitudinally ribbed, disc level or descending, valves 3 or 4, enclosed.Seeds reddish brown to brown, 8–10 mm long, flattened-ellipsoidal, dorsal surface smooth, hilum ventral.
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