Mallee or Tree to 15 m tall, but often much shorter. Forming a lignotuber. Bark usually smooth over the entire trunk, powdery, white to pink, weathering light brown to grey, sometimes with a small stocking of rough grey tessellated bark at the base.Branchlets lacking oil glands in the pith; smooth. Juvenile growth (coppice or field seedlings to 50 cm): stems rounded in cross-section, setose but becoming smooth with age; juvenile leaves opposite to sub-opposite and shortly petiolate, cordate to ovate to lanceolate, 3.5–8 cm long, 1.3–3.7 cm wide, base lobed to rounded, dull grey-green.Adult leaves alternate, petiole 0.3–1.2 cm long; blade lanceolate, sometimes undulate, 4–10 cm long, 0.6–2.2 cm wide, base usually tapering to petiole, occasionally rounded, concolorous, dull to slightly glossy, grey-green to green, penniveined, densely to very densely reticulate, intramarginal vein present, oil glands abundant and island, but obscure.Inflorescence axillary compound, condensed with peduncles short, 0–0.2 cm long, buds 7 per umbel, pedicels 0.2–0.5 cm long. Mature buds pyriform, 0.4–0.5 cm long, 0.3–0.4 cm wide, smooth (not scurfy), scar present (outer operculum shed during bud development), operculum flattened, stamens inflexed, anthers oblong, versatile, dorsifixed, dehiscing by longitudinal slits (non-confluent), style long, stigma tapered, locules usually 4, the ovules not arranged in distinct vertical rows on the placentae. Flowers whitish.Fruit pedicellate (pedicels 0.1–0.5 cm long), truncate-ovoid to more or less cylindrical, sometimes campanulate, 0.6–1 cm long, 0.4–0.9 cm wide, thin-walled, disc vertically descending, valves 4, enclosed.Seeds brown, round and flattened (saucer-shaped), usually with a small membranous flange around the edge, 3–5 mm long, surface smooth, sometimes slightly lacunose, hilum ventral.Cultivated seedlings (measured at node 10): stems round in cross-section, setose throughout, leaves shortly petiolate, opposite, ovate, 4–11.5 cm long, 2.2–5 cm wide, dull yellow-green, apex acute, base rounded to tapering to the petiole, rarely lobed, usually setose on the under surface until at least node 17.
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Tree or mallee to 8 m. Bark smooth throughout, green to pink. Juvenile leaves opposite, petiolate, ovate, dull, light green. Adult leaves alternate, petiolate, narrowly lanceolate to lanceolate, acuminate to rostrate; lamina 5–10 cm long, 1–1.5 cm wide, dull, grey-green; lateral veins faint, at 45°–60°; intramarginal vein up to 1 mm from margin; petiole 6–15 mm long. Conflorescence axillary, compound; umbels many-flowered; peduncle c. 2 mm long; pedicels 1–2 mm long. Buds clavate; operculum hemispherical, 1–2 mm long, 2–3 mm wide; hypanthium obovoid, 2–3 mm long, 3–4 mm wide. Fruits cylindrical to ovoid, 5–9 mm long, 4–7 mm wide.
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