Mallee to 6 m, diffuse. Bark smooth, grey, except lower trunk where rough, persistent. Juvenile leaves alternate, petiolate, lanceolate, green. Adult leaves alternate, lanceolate, acuminate; lamina 8–11 cm long, 1.5–2 cm wide, light green; lateral veins faint, at 35°–45°; intramarginal vein up to 1 mm from margin; petiole terete, 15–20 mm long. Umbels 3-flowered; peduncle flattened, 10–25 mm long; pedicels thick, 6–12 mm long. Buds subglobular or pyriform; operculum hemispherical, umbonate, thick, ribbed, 12–20 mm long and wide; hypanthium turbinate, ribbed, 5–10 mm long, 12–18 mm wide. Fruits turbinate, slightly ribbed, 12–20 mm long, 15–25 mm wide; disc often concave, steeply ascending; valves 4 or 5, exserted. Seeds irregularly crescent-shaped, narrowly winged, slightly ridged on ventral surface, brown.
Grows in open heathland, often in thickets, in sandyand gravelly soil on flat and slightly undulating areas.
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