Mallee, occasionally a tree, to 6 m. Bark at first smooth, red-brown, later deciduous in longitudinally curling flakes. Juvenile leaves opposite, petiolate, suborbicular, grey-green. Adult leaves alternate, sometimes opposite, suborbicular, retuse or emarginate; lamina 2.5–3.8 cm long, 2.5–4.3 cm wide, grey-green; lateral veins faint, at 40°–45°; intramarginal vein up to 3 mm from margin; petiole terete, 10–20 mm long, pruinose. Umbels 7-flowered, glaucous; peduncle terete, 10–25 mm long; pedicels 4–7 mm long. Buds globular to ovoid, sometimes shortly umbonate; operculum conical or hemispherical-conical, 7–13 mm long, 6–8 mm wide; hypanthium hemispherical, 3–5 mm long, 6–8 mm wide. Fruits hemispherical or campanulate, 6–11 mm long, 12–18 mm wide, pruinose; disc ascending; valves 3 or 4, exserted. Seeds irregularly crescent-shaped, grey-brown.
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