Mallee to 5 m or tree to 12 m. Bark rough, fibrous, grey-brown on trunk or lower stems of mallees, sometimes extending to larger branches of trees, then smooth and grey-white above. Juvenile leaves elliptic to ovate, dark green, slightly discolorous. Adult leaves lanceolate, uncinate; lamina 6–12 cm long, 1–2 cm wide, shining, green; lateral veins clearly visible, at 15°–40°; intramarginal vein up to 3 mm from margin; petiole terete, 10–15 mm long. Conflorescence axillary, simple; umbels 7-flowered; peduncle quadrangular, 2–10 mm long; pedicels 2–4 mm long. Buds clavate to obovoid; operculum hemispherical to conical, 2–4 mm long, 3–4 mm wide; hypanthium obovoid, 2–4 mm long, c. 4 mm wide. Fruits ovoid to pyriform, 5–8 mm long, 5–6 mm wide; disc moderately broad, descending; valves 4 or 5, included.
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