Tree to 10 m, but often a mallee to 3 m or more. Bark rough, flaky throughout, light brown to grey. Juvenile leaves opposite, ovate or broadly lanceolate, glaucous, concolorous. Adult leaves broadly ovate to elliptic-ovate, cordate, apiculate; lamina 5–13 cm long, 2.5–9 cm wide, grey-green to pruinose; lateral veins at 50°–60°; intramarginal vein double, one confluent with margin, the other up to 3 mm from margin; petiole absent. Umbels 7-flowered; peduncle slightly flattened to terete, 12–25 mm long; pedicels 5–10 mm long. Buds fusiform to pyriform, pruinose; operculum conical, sometimes slightly rostrate, 4–6 mm long, 3–6 mm wide; hypanthium obconical, 4–7 mm long, 3–6 mm wide. Fruits cylindrical to almost obconical, 7–10 mm long, 6–8 mm wide, glaucous when young; disc narrow, descending; valves 3–5, just exserted.
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