Mallee to 7 m. Bark smooth throughout, green to orange-brown and grey. Juvenile leaves opposite, sessile, elliptic to ovate, slightly crenulate, prominently glandular, shining, dark green. Adult leaves alternate, lanceolate, often falcate, acuminate; lamina 10–15 cm long, 1.5–2 cm wide, green, concolorous; lateral veins faint, at 30°–35°; intramarginal vein up to 2 mm from margin; petiole flattened, 10–15 mm long. Umbels 3-flowered; peduncle angular or slightly flattened, 3–5 mm long; pedicels absent or central bud shortly pedicellate. Buds ovoid or subcylindrical; operculum conical, 3–4 mm long, 3–5 mm wide; hypanthium obconical to slightly urceolate, 3–4 mm long, 3–5 mm wide. Fruits hemispherical to subglobular, 5–7 mm long, 6–8 mm wide; disc broad, ascending; valves 3 or 4, exserted.
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