Tree, usually 15–30 m, occasionally a mallee to 10 m. Bark finely fibrous, grey-brown on trunk and larger branches, then smooth, salmon pink or white to grey above. Juvenile leaves lanceolate, green to subglaucous. Adult leaves narrowly lanceolate to linear, falcate, acuminate or uncinate, thin; lamina 7–12 cm long, 0.5–1.3 cm wide, dull, green; lateral veins faint, at 15°–25°; intramarginal vein up to 1 mm from margin; petiole flattened or angular, 7–10 mm long. Umbels with 11–15 or more flowers; peduncle terete or angular, 4–10 mm long; pedicels 1–3 mm long. Operculum hemispherical, sometimes apiculate, 1–2 mm long, 2–3 mm wide; hypanthium subpyriform, 2–3 mm long and wide. Fruits hemispherical or obconical, 4–7 mm long, 5–7 mm wide; disc broad, level, sometimes ascending; valves 4, level.
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