Mallee or straggly tree to 9 m. Bark usually smooth throughout, white, grey or grey-green, sometimes accumulated decorticating bark at trunk base. Juvenile leaves opposite, sessile, ovate, rounded, sometimes apiculate, grey-green, concolorous. Adult leaves alternate, lanceolate, acuminate, thick; lamina 5–8 cm long, 1–2 cm wide, grey-green, concolorous; lateral veins faint, at 40°–50°; intramarginal vein up to 2 mm from margin; petiole terete, 10–15 mm long. Umbels 3-flowered; peduncle flattened, thick, 1–4 mm long; pedicels absent. Buds obovoid; operculum hemispherical, slightly apiculate, 2–3 mm long, 4–5 mm wide; hypanthium hemispherical to obconical, 3–4 mm long, 4–5 mm wide. Fruits hemispherical or subcampanulate, slightly wrinkled, 6–8 mm long and wide; disc moderately broad, descending; valves 3 or 4, level or included.
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