Mallee, usually to 3.5 m, sometimes a tree to 8 m. Bark mostly smooth, grey to pale brown, with up to 1 m of fibrous or scaly dark grey bark at base. Adult leaves alternate, lanceolate, acute; lamina 9–11 cm long, 1–2 cm wide, grey-green; lateral veins just visible, at c. 30°; intramarginal vein up to 2 mm from margin; petiole 10–20 mm long. Peduncle 5–12 mm long; pedicels 2–5 mm long. Buds cylindrical; operculum hemispherical or conical, c. 5 mm long, 4 mm wide; hypanthium cylindrical, c. 6 mm long, 4 mm wide. Fruits ovoid or globular, 10–15 mm long, 10–12 mm wide; disc obliquely descending; valves small, almost level with narrow orifice.
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