Mallee or small tree to 6 m high. Bark white, grey, red or pink-brown, usually powdered. Juvenile leaves lanceolate. Adult leaves narrowly lanceolate, uncinate; lamina 6–8 cm long, 0.8–1.5 cm wide, shining, green, glandular; lateral veins faint, at 20°–35°; intramarginal vein up to 1 mm from margin; petiole slightly flattened, 6–9 mm long. Peduncle terete or angular, usually recurved, 15–20 mm long; pedicels often quadrangular, 10–18 mm long. Buds conical or fusiform; operculum conical, 10–15 mm long, 7–10 mm wide; hypanthium obconical, 6–7 mm long, 8–9 mm wide. Fruits obconical or turbinate, striate, 7–12 mm long, 10–15 mm wide; disc broad, level or obliquely descending; valves 4 or 5, just exserted. [For more recent description see subspecies profiles-Editor]
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