Shrub, mallee or tree to 8 m. Bark smooth, grey to cream-white, sometimes with grey-pink patches. Juvenile leaves orbicular, ovate or broadly lanceolate, becoming connate, glaucous, often persisting on mature trees. Adult leaves not often seen, lanceolate, acuminate, firm; lamina 6.5–10 cm long, 1.5–2 cm wide, subglaucous or green; lateral veins faint, at 15°–25°; intramarginal vein up to 2 mm from margin; petiole terete, 6–15 mm long. Umbels 7–15-flowered; peduncle terete, 5–25 mm long; pedicels absent or to 3 mm long. Operculum hemispherical to flattened-hemispherical, glaucous, 1–2 mm long, 2–3 mm wide; hypanthium obconical or subpyriform, glaucous, 3–5 mm long, 2–3 mm wide. Fruits hemispherical or subglobular, glaucous, 7–10 mm long, 7–9 mm wide; disc narrow, level or descending; valves usually 4, level or included.
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