Mallee or small tree to 10 m. Bark smooth throughout, yellow-orange to grey or grey-green, often accumulated decorticating bark at trunk base. Juvenile leaves opposite, sessile, ovate to orbicular, sometimes emarginate, subglaucous, discolorous. Adult leaves alternate, lanceolate, often falcate, acuminate; lamina 10–15 cm long, 1–2 cm wide, dull, blue-grey or subglaucous, concolorous; lateral veins faint, at 20°–40°; intramarginal vein up to 1 mm from margin; petiole terete, 10–20 mm long. Umbels 3-flowered; peduncle terete, thick, glaucous, 3–5 mm long; pedicels absent. Buds turbinate, glaucous; operculum low-hemispherical, rostrate, 2–4 mm long, 5–7 mm wide; hypanthium obconical or urceolate, c. 5 mm long, 5–7 mm wide. Fruits campanulate, glaucous, 6–12 mm long, 8–14 mm wide; disc broad, ascending, occasionally level; valves 3–5, exserted.
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