Mallee or small tree to 4 m. Bark smooth, grey to white throughout, shedding in recurving strips. Juvenile leaves opposite at first, becoming alternate, petiolate becoming sessile, oblong-ovate, discolorous. Adult leaves narrowly lanceolate or slightly falcate, apiculate, erect; lamina 7–10 cm long, 1.1–1.7 cm wide, dark green, prominently glandular, concolorous; lateral veins faint at 40°–50°; intramarginal vein indistinct; petiole more or less flattened, 3–8 mm long. Umbels 7-flowered; peduncle absent or to 2 mm long; pedicels absent. Buds fusiform or diamond-shaped, angular; operculum conical, 3–4 mm long, 4–5 mm wide; hypanthium obconical, 4–5 mm long, 4–5 mm wide. Fruits sessile, depressed hemispherical, 6–10 mm long, 10–14 mm wide; disc broad, ascending; valves 3–5, usually 4, exserted.
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