Mallee to 6 m high, spreading. Bark grey to light brown. Juvenile leaves opposite, sessile, later ones alternate, petiolate, oblong-lanceolate. Adult leaves alternate, lanceolate, sometimes falcate, apiculate, thick; lamina 7–10 cm long, 1–2 cm wide, dull, grey-green or blue-green; lateral veins just visible, at 20°–30°; intramarginal vein up to 2 mm from margin; petiole channelled, 10–20 mm long. Umbels 7–11-flowered; peduncle channelled, 5–12 mm long; pedicels 2–4 mm long. Buds conical or fusiform, grey-pink or grey-red; operculum conical, 4–8 mm long, 5–6 mm wide; hypanthium obconical, 3–4 mm long, 5–6 mm wide. Fruits truncate-pyriform or subglobular, 8–12 mm long, 10–15 mm wide; disc broad, flat or convex, overlapping valves; valves 4, small, level to slightly exserted. Seeds D-shaped, with several ridges, often shortly winged on margin, red-brown. [For more recent description see subspecies profiles-Editor]
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