Tree or mallee to 15 m. Bark smooth, grey-brown to creamy white, with up to 2 m of rough, grey-brown to yellow-brown, scaly basal bark. Juvenile leaves ovate. Adult leaves narrowly lanceolate to lanceolate, sometimes falcate, acuminate or uncinate; lamina 9–13 cm long, 1.5–2.5 cm wide, shining, 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 terete or slightly flattened, glaucous, 8–12 mm long; pedicels glaucous, 4–6 mm long. Buds clavate; operculum hemispherical, flat-topped, corrugated, 4–6 mm long, 10–15 mm wide; hypanthium obconical, corrugated, 6–9 mm long, 10–15 mm wide. Fruits hemispherical or obconical, corrugated, 8–12 mm long, 10–15 mm wide; disc descending; valves 4 or 5, exserted strongly.
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