Mallee to 6 m or tree to 9 m. Bark rough, fibrous, grey to grey-brown on stems or trunk, then smooth and green-brown above. Juvenile leaves elliptic to lanceolate, green, slightly discolorous. Adult leaves lanceolate, acute; lamina 7.5–12 cm long, 1.2–2 cm wide, shining, green; lateral veins faint, at 15°–25°; intramarginal vein prominent, up to 3 mm from margin; petiole slightly flattened, 7–12 mm long. Conflorescence usually terminal panicles, sometimes axillary, simple; umbels 7–11-flowered; peduncle flattened, 7–15 mm long; pedicels 4–6 mm long. Buds quadrangular, clavate to ovoid; operculum pyramidal, 4–5 mm long, 4–6 mm wide; hypanthium ovoid to obpyramidal, 5–7 mm long, 4–5 mm wide. Fruits ovoid to cylindrical, quadrangular, 6–8 mm long, 5–8 mm wide; disc broad, descending; valves 4 or 5, included.
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