Mallee, shrub or occasionally a tree to 7.5 m. Bark smooth, grey throughout, or sometimes with flaky, fibrous, rough bark on lower trunk. Juvenile leaves opposite, sessile, cordate or broadly ovate, glaucous. Adult leaves usually on only the higher branches of mature plants, lanceolate, acute; lamina 6–8 cm long, 1.2–2 cm wide, slightly glaucous; lateral veins faint, at 40°–50°; intramarginal vein up to 1 mm from margin; petiole terete, 2–5 mm long. Umbels 7–11-flowered; peduncle terete, 6–15 mm long; pedicels 1–4 mm long. Buds glaucous; operculum rostrate, 5–8 mm long, 4–5 mm wide; hypanthium cylindrical, 3–4 mm long, 4–5 mm wide. Fruits globular, glaucous, 5–7 mm long and wide; valves 3.
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