Mallee to 5 m, spreading or sprawling. Bark smooth throughout, grey. Juvenile leaves opposite, sessile or almost so, broadly elliptic to suborbicular, grey-green or glaucous. Adult leaves opposite, sessile, broadly ovate to elliptic-ovate, apiculate; lamina 8–12 cm long, 5–8 cm wide, glaucous; lateral veins faint, at 45°–55°; intramarginal vein up to 2 mm from margin. Umbels 1-flowered; peduncle terete, thick, glaucous, 6–10 mm long; pedicels absent. Buds ovoid; operculum conical-hemispherical, 25–35 mm long, 25–40 mm wide; hypanthium hemispherical or obconical, 15–25 mm long, 25–40 mm wide. Fruits shallowly hemispherical or turbinate, 30–50 mm long, 50–90 mm wide; disc ascending; valves 4–7, exserted. Seeds orbicular or irregularly pyramidal, ribbed on ventral surface, narrowly winged, brown.
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