Mallee to 4 m. Bark smooth, white or grey, often with a small amount of subfibrous bark at base. Juvenile leaves ovate to ovate-lanceolate, grey-green. Adult leaves lanceolate, acuminate, oblique, thick; lamina 7.5–15 cm long, 1.9–3.2 cm wide, dark green; lateral veins usually visible, at 15°–30°; intramarginal vein up to 2 mm from margin; petiole channelled, 14–17 mm long. Umbels up to 20-flowered; peduncle flat or angular, 6–18 mm long; pedicels to 4 mm long. Operculum hemispherical, apiculate, 1–2 mm long, 3–5 mm wide; hypanthium obconical or campanulate, 5–6 mm long, 3–5 mm wide. Fruits hemispherical or subglobular, 5–8 mm long and wide; disc ±level; valves 3–5, almost level. Seeds brown-black.
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