Mallee or straggly tree to 10 m. Bark rough, fibrous on base of trunk, or extending over all the trunk and branches. Juvenile leaves linear, green, slightly discolorous. Adult leaves lanceolate to narrowly lanceolate, acuminate, moderately thick; lamina 8–12 cm long, 1.2–2 cm wide, grey-green; lateral veins at 25°–35°; intramarginal vein up to 2 mm from margin; petiole slightly flattened, 10–20 mm long. Umbels usually 3-flowered, rarely to 7-flowered; peduncle thick, quadrangular, 5–10 mm long; pedicels absent or to 3 mm long. Buds ovoid; operculum conical, 5–7 mm long, 5–6 mm wide; hypanthium obconical, 2–4 mm long, 5–6 mm wide. Fruits ovoid or subglobular, 7–9 mm long, 6–9 mm wide; disc broad, steeply ascending; valves 4–6. Seeds brown-black.
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