Tree or sometimes a mallee, to 15 m. Bark smooth throughout, cream, grey, white or cream-orange. Juvenile leaves orbicular to ovate, pale green, slightly discolorous. Adult leaves lanceolate, acute or acuminate, thin; lamina 6–15 cm long, 2–3 cm wide, dull or shining, green; lateral veins at 30°–45°; intramarginal vein up to 2 mm from margin; petiole terete or channelled, 10–22 mm long. Umbels 7-flowered; peduncle usually quadrangular, 6–10 mm long; pedicels 1–3 mm long. Buds conical; operculum conical, 4–7 mm long, 3–5 mm wide; hypanthium hemispherical or obconical, 4–7 mm long, 3–5 mm wide. Fruits hemispherical, 4–6 mm long and wide; disc broad, level or ascending; valves 4. Seeds brown-black.
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