Mallee to 2 m. Bark grey. Juvenile leaves not seen. Adult leaves alternate, lanceolate, falcate, apiculate; lamina 9–12 cm long, 1.8–3 cm wide, green, shining; lateral veins faint, at c. 30°; intramarginal vein up to 3 mm from margin; petiole flattened or angular, 10–25 mm long. Umbels 3-flowered; peduncle broadly flattened, 10–17 mm long and to 15 mm wide; pedicels absent. Buds fusiform or turbinate, deeply corrugated; operculum conical, 10–15 mm long, 15–30 mm wide; hypanthium obconical, 12–17 mm long, 15–30 mm wide. Fruits obconical, deeply corrugated, 18–25 mm long, 25–35 mm wide, occasionally up to 50 mm wide; disc oblique, descending, lobed and extending over valves; valves 4 or 5, exserted. Seeds crescent-shaped, grey-black.
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