Mallee to 3 m high. Bark smooth throughout, white or grey. Juvenile leaves ovate to lanceolate, glaucous. Adult leaves broadly lanceolate, acuminate, thick; lamina 9–15 cm long, 2–6 cm wide, grey-or yellow-green; lateral veins faint, at 25°–40°; intramarginal vein up to 1 mm from margin; petiole terete, glaucous, 20–30 mm long. Umbels 7-flowered; peduncle thick, terete or angular, glaucous, 15–30 mm long; pedicels 4–6 mm long. Buds subcylindrical, obovoid or pyriform, glaucous; operculum hemispherical, apiculate, 3–5 mm long, 5–7 mm wide; hypanthium obconical, 7–8 mm long, 5–7 mm wide. Fruits campanulate or cylindrical, glaucous, 12–15 mm long, 9–11 mm wide; valves 4 or 5, slightly exserted. [For more recent description see subspecies profiles-Editor]
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