Tree to 35 m high. Bark rough throughout, grey-black to black. Juvenile leaves orbicular to ovate. Adult leaves narrowly to broadly lanceolate, acuminate; lateral veins just visible, at 35°–45°; intramarginal vein up to 1 mm from margin. Conflorescence terminal, paniculate, with some axillary umbels; umbels 7–11-flowered. Buds fusiform; operculum conical; hypanthium obconical. Fruits obconical, pyriform or hemispherical; disc narrow, level to ascending; valves 4 or 5, ± level or exserted. [For more recent description see subspecies profiles-Editor]
Locally frequent, in wet or dry sclerophyll forest growing on shallower and somewhat infertile, sandy or stony soils.
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