Mallee to 6 m. Bark at first smooth, red-brown, later deciduous in longitudinally curling flakes. Juvenile leaves alternate, petiolate, ovate, green. Adult leaves alternate, lanceolate to ovate-lanceolate, uncinate; lamina 5–9 cm long, 1.5–3 cm wide, dull, grey-or yellow-green, glandular; lateral veins distinct, at 30°–40°; intramarginal vein up to 2 mm from margin; petiole terete, 10–20 mm long. Umbels 7-flowered; peduncle terete or slightly flattened, 10–20 mm long; pedicels quadrangular, 3–6 mm long. Buds globular or ovoid; operculum hemispherical, 5–6 mm long, 4–8 mm wide; hypanthium shallowly hemispherical, 2–3 mm long, 5–7 mm wide. Fruits subglobular, 5–10 mm long, 6–12 mm wide; disc steeply ascending, convex; valves 3 or 4, exserted. Seeds irregularly crescent-shaped, grey-brown.
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