Mallee to 2 m or tree to 10 m. Bark smooth, matt, white or blue-grey throughout, though often with accumulated old grey-brown bark at base. Juvenile leaves ovate. Adult leaves lanceolate to broadly lanceolate, leathery; lamina 7.5–15 cm long, 2–3.8 cm wide, concolorous; lateral veins just visible, at 40°–60°; intramarginal vein conspicuous, up to 3 mm from margin; petiole thick, flattened, 15–25 mm long. Umbels 3-flowered; peduncle thick, flattened or angular, 2–8 mm long; pedicels absent. Buds ovoid, shortly rostrate or fusiform; operculum conical, hemispherical or shortly rostrate, 6–10 mm long, 9–14 mm wide; hypanthium hemispherical or obconical, 7–14 mm long, 9–14 mm wide. Fruits hemispherical or shortly cylindrical, finely 2-ribbed, 15–20 mm long, 12–18 mm wide; disc broad, descending; valves 4 or 5, level. Seeds black.
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