Mallee to 9 m, or occasionally tree to 18 m. Bark smooth throughout, red to grey-red, cream-green or brown. Juvenile leaves opposite, sessile, broadly lanceolate, green, discolorous. Adult leaves alternate, lanceolate, often falcate, acuminate, thin; lamina 9–15 cm long, 1–2.5 cm wide, green, concolorous; lateral veins faint, at 25°–35°; intramarginal vein up to 1 mm from margin; petiole terete or channelled, 7–17 mm long. Umbels 3-flowered; peduncle slightly angular or flattened, 1–5 mm long; pedicels absent. Buds subpyriform, often rostrate, sometimes warty; operculum conical to rostrate, 3–4 mm long, 4–6 mm wide; hypanthium cylindrical to obconical, 4–5 mm long, 4–6 mm wide. Fruits campanulate, often 1-ribbed, with flared rim, 6–9 mm long, 6–10 mm wide; disc narrow to moderately broad, level to slightly ascending; valves 3 or 4, exserted.
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