Mallee to 4 m, or rarely a tree to 18 m. Bark smooth throughout, white, grey or grey-green. Juvenile leaves lanceolate, shining, green, slightly discolorous. Adult leaves lanceolate, erect, falcate, uncinate, thick; lamina 5–9 cm long, 0.6–1.3 cm wide, green, concolorous; lateral veins faint, at 20°–30°; intramarginal vein faint, c. 1 mm from margin; petiole thick, 3–5 mm long. Umbels 3–11-flowered; peduncle angular or terete, 1–5 mm long; pedicels absent. Buds broadly clavate or turbinate, warty; operculum low hemispherical, usually apiculate, 1–2 mm long, 3–4 mm wide; hypanthium subpyriform or hemispherical, 3–4 mm long and wide. Fruits hemispherical or obconical, 4–5 mm long, 5–8 mm wide; disc broad level, convex or just below rim; valves 4 or 5, level or just included. Seeds red-brown.
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