Mallee to 3 m, spreading. Bark smooth throughout, grey-brown. Juvenile leaves opposite, sessile, ovate to orbicular, grey-green. Adult leaves opposite, sessile, orbicular, cordate, acuminate; lamina 6–8 cm long and wide, glaucous; lateral veins just visible, at 50°–65°; intramarginal vein up to 5 mm from margin. Umbels usually 1-flowered, rarely 3-flowered; peduncle terete, thick, glaucous, 10–20 mm long; pedicels glaucous, 5–20 mm long. Buds ovoid to turbinate, glaucous; operculum conical, slightly striate, 20–30 mm long, 20–40 mm wide; hypanthium hemispherical or turbinate, faintly 2-ribbed and striate, 10–25 mm long, 20–40 mm wide. Fruits hemispherical or turbinate, 20–30 mm long, 35–55 mm wide, 2-ribbed; disc flat to convex; valves 4 or 5, exserted up to 10 mm. Seeds orbicular or irregularly pyramidal, narrowly winged, ribbed on ventral side, brown.
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