Mallee to 5 m high. Bark smooth throughout, light grey. Juvenile leaves broadly lanceolate, green. Adult leaves lanceolate, apiculate or uncinate, thick; lamina 6–8 cm long, 1–2 cm wide, green; lateral veins faint, at 30°–40°; intramarginal vein up to 1 mm from margin; petiole terete or angular, 15–20 mm long. Umbels usually 7-flowered; peduncle terete, flattened or angular, 4–9 mm long; pedicels absent. Buds cylindrical-conical; operculum conical, striate, 3–5 mm long, 5–7 mm wide; hypanthium hemispherical, slightly striate, 2-ribbed, 4–5 mm long, 5–7 mm wide. Fruits hemispherical to subcylindrical, 5–8 mm long, 7–10 mm wide; valves 3–5, level or just exserted. [For more recent description see subspecies profiles-Editor]
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