Small tree to 8 m, or mallee to 3 m. Bark smooth, powdery, white or grey, deciduous in small dark flakes. Juvenile leaves alternate, shortly petiolate, elliptic, grey-green. Adult leaves alternate, elliptic to lanceolate, abruptly acuminate; lamina 5–8 cm long, 1.5–2 cm wide, dull, grey-green, glandular; lateral veins faint, at 50°–60°; intramarginal vein faint, almost confluent with margin; petiole terete, 15–20 mm long. Umbels 7-flowered; peduncle terete, 15–35 mm long; pedicels 6–12 mm long. Buds ovoid-conical, glaucous; operculum conical, 7–12 mm long, 6–10 mm wide; hypanthium hemispherical or obconical, 4–5 mm long, 6–8 mm wide. Fruits subglobular, 8–12 mm long, 10–15 mm wide; disc convex; valves 4, exserted. Seeds suborbicular to elliptic, brown.
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