Mallee to 5 m, few-stemmed; branchlets pendulous, pruinose. Bark pink-grey. Juvenile leaves opposite, ovate. Adult leaves lanceolate, acuminate, sometimes slightly falcate, thick, uncinate; lamina 6–12 cm long, 1–2 cm wide, green, lateral veins faint, at 30°–45°; intramarginal vein up to 1 mm from margin; petiole flattened, 20–30 mm long. Umbels 7–11-flowered; peduncle flattened, pruinose, 15–40 mm long; pedicels angular, pruinose, 3–8 mm long. Buds clavate; operculum hemispherical, sometimes umbonate, verrucose, sometimes 2-or 3-ribbed, 2–4 mm long, 6–8 mm wide; hypanthium obconical, 5–8 mm long, 6–8 mm wide. Fruits subglobular or truncate-ovoid, wrinkled or ribbed, 12–20 mm long and wide; disc oblique or vertical. Seeds dorsally rounded, several-ridged, black.
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