Mallee to 3 m tall. Forming a lignotuber. Bark rough for basal ca of stem, grey, smooth above. Branchlets angular; lacking oil glands in the pith. Juvenile growth (coppice or field seedlings to 50 cm): not seen. Adult leaves alternate, petioles 1–1.8 cm long; blade lanceolate to falcate, 5.5–10 cm long, 1.5–1.7 cm wide, base tapering to petiole, margin entire, apex pointed, concolorous, glossy, green, side-veins greater than 45° to midrib, reticulation, intramarginal vein remote from margin, oil glands island and intersectional. Inflorescence axillary unbranched, peduncles 1–1.2 cm long, buds ?9 or 11 per umbel, pedicellate. Mature buds not seen, immature buds ovoid, scar absent, the single operculum conical, stamens irregularly flexed, anthers ± reniform, versatile, dorsifixed, dehiscing by longitudinal slits that are ?not confluent apically, style long and straight, stigma tapered, locules 3, the placentae each with 2 vertical rows of ovules; flowers not seen. Fruit not seen. Seeds not seen. Cultivated seedlings (measured at ca node 10): not grown.
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