Mallee to 4 m. Bark smooth throughout, grey to cream, sometimes with accumulated bark forming a rough base. Juvenile leaves alternate, petiolate, ovate-lanceolate, green. Adult leaves alternate, ovate to broadly lanceolate, acuminate or uncinate; lamina 7–13 cm long, 3–4.5 cm wide, grey-green, dull; lateral veins faint, at 30°–45°; intramarginal vein up to 2 mm from margin; petiole terete, 10–20 mm long. Umbels 7-flowered; peduncle slightly flattened, dilating upwards, 10–13 mm long; pedicels 0.5 mm long. Buds globular-conical, glaucous; operculum hemispherical-conical, rostrate, 7–10 mm long, 8–13 mm wide; hypanthium hemispherical, 4–5 mm long, 7–12 mm wide. Fruits hemispherical or subglobular, sometimes slightly ribbed, 12–20 mm long, 10–15 mm wide; disc ascending, convex; valves 3–5, exserted. Seeds irregularly crescent-shaped, sometimes with a wing-like margin, grey-brown.
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A small tree. It has several stems. It grows 1-6 m tall. The bark peels off in long strips. The leaves are alternate. They are broadly sword shaped. The flowers occur as 7 together in groups. The buds have a beaked cap. The fruit is half round. The seeds are grey-brown.
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