Mallee or small tree to 3 m. Bark grey or grey-brown, sometimes with 0.5 m of fibrous grey bark at base. Juvenile leaves lanceolate, green, concolorous. Adult leaves narrowly lanceolate to lanceolate, coriaceous; lamina 6–13 cm long, 0.7–2 cm wide, light green to grey-green; lateral veins faint, at 30°–40°; intramarginal vein almost confluent with or up to 1 mm from margin; petiole terete or flattened, 5–8 mm long. Peduncle 4–15 mm long; pedicels absent or to 4 mm long. Buds clavate; operculum hemispherical, 3–4 mm long, 5–6 mm wide; hypanthium obconical, 4–5 mm long, 5–6 mm wide. Fruits obconical, 6–12 mm long, 8–13 mm wide; disc narrow, obliquely descending; valves 4 or 5, exserted.
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