Mallee to 4.5 m. Bark smooth, grey to light brown. Juvenile leaves alternate, petiolate, ovate-lanceolate, sometimes orbicular, green. Adult leaves alternate, lanceolate to ovate-lanceolate, acuminate; lamina 6–8 cm long, 1.5–2.5 cm wide, light green; lateral veins faint, at 40°–50°; intramarginal vein faint, up to 1 mm from margin; petiole flattened, 12–25 mm long. Umbels 3-flowered; peduncle terete, thick, pendulous, 20–65 mm long; pedicels very thick, 8–35 mm long. Buds pyriform; operculum hemispherical, umbonate, markedly ridged, 20–40 mm long, 25–38 mm wide; hypanthium obconical or obpyramidal, ridged, 20–30 mm long, 25–38 mm wide. Fruits broadly turbinate, strongly ribbed, 25–38 mm long, 30–65 mm wide; disc steeply ascending; valves 4–6, level or exserted. Seeds irregularly pyramidal, narrowly winged, ridged on ventral surface, dark brown.
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