Mallee to 3.5 m. Branchlets quadrangular. Bark grey. Juvenile leaves opposite, shortly petiolate, narrowly lanceolate, concolorous. Adult leaves alternate, erect, narrowly lanceolate to lanceolate, sometimes falcate, acuminate; lamina 5–10 cm long, 1–1.5 cm wide, green, lateral veins just visible, at c. 30°; intramarginal vein up to 2 mm from margin; petiole flattened, 7–10 mm long. Umbels usually 3-flowered, sometimes up to 11-flowered; peduncle quadrangular, thick, 5–10 mm long; pedicels absent or up to 3 mm long. Buds globular or ovoid; operculum hemispherical-conical, 5–8 mm long and wide; hypanthium hemispherical, 4–6 mm long, 5–8 mm wide. Fruits globular, 11–13 mm long, 11–15 mm wide; disc prominent, broad, convex, overlapping valves; valves 3, broadly triangular, level or slightly exserted. Seeds D-shaped, with several ridges, narrowly winged, red-brown.
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