Tree to 16 m. Bark white, with scattered yellow-brown flakes of shedding bark. Juvenile leaves broadly ovate, remotely crenate, amplexicaul, glaucous. Adult leaves opposite or subopposite, elliptic-lanceolate, apiculate; lamina 3.8–6.4 cm long, 0.7–1.3 cm wide, grey-green or glaucous; lateral veins faint, at 35°–40°; intramarginal vein up to 1 mm from margin; petiole terete, 3–6 mm long. Conflorescence axillary; peduncle terete, 8–15 mm long; pedicels 3–6 mm long. Buds pyriform or subglobular, glaucous; operculum low hemispherical, faintly striate, 1–2 mm long, 3–4 mm wide; hypanthium obconical, 2–4 mm long, 3–4 mm wide. Fruits subglobular or globular-ovoid, 6–9 mm long, 6–8 mm wide, glaucous, woody; disc obliquely descending; valves 3–4, reduced to small teeth, included.
Dry inland regions, where it is found on sand plains, undulating country or dunes, sometimes close to salt lakes; at elevations from 350-600 metres.
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Grows on aeolian sand plains, sand dunes or undulating sands near salt lakes.
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