Mallee to 3 m or tree to 6 m. Bark smooth throughout, white, grey or pale brown. Juvenile leaves narrowly to broadly lanceolate, grey-green, concolorous. Adult leaves lanceolate, sometimes falcate, acute to acuminate, thick; lamina 10–15 cm long, 1.2–2.5 cm wide, green; lateral veins at 40°–45°; intramarginal vein up to 1 mm from margin; petiole flattened or angular, 15–30 mm long. Umbels 7-flowered, occasionally 3-flowered, single or paired; peduncle thick, terete, 5–10 mm long; pedicels absent or to 4 mm long. Buds ovoid to obovoid or ±conical; operculum conical, 4–8 mm long, 3–6 mm wide; hypanthium hemispherical, 3–4 mm long, 3–6 mm wide. Fruits subglobular to ovoid, 6–15 mm long, 6–12 mm wide; disc broad, steeply ascending; valves 3–5, strongly exserted. Seeds brown-black.
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