Mallee to 5 m. Bark mottled white and grey. Juvenile leaves subopposite, sessile, ovate to ovate-lanceolate, slightly discolorous. Adult leaves alternate, lanceolate, often falcate, apiculate, oblique, thick; lamina 8–13 cm long, 1.5–2.5 cm wide, green, shining; lateral veins just visible, at 30°–40°; intramarginal vein up to 1 mm from margin; petiole flattened, glandular, 10–25 mm long. Umbels 3-flowered; peduncle flat, 20–30 mm long, 10–15 mm wide; pedicels absent. Buds turbinate, smooth; operculum hemispherical-conical, 10–12 mm long, 25–28 mm wide; hypanthium obconical, 15–20 mm long, 25–28 mm wide. Fruits obconical, smooth or faintly ribbed, 30–40 mm long, 35–50 mm wide; disc broad, rugose, red-brown, shiny, lobed and convex, extending over valves; valves 5–7, exserted. Seeds pyramidal, grey-black.
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