Mallee or slender tree to 8 m; branches pendulous, branchlets pruinose. Bark white to grey-brown. Juvenile leaves opposite, sessile, elliptic, becoming alternate, petiolate, oblong-lanceolate, grey-green. Adult leaves linear-lanceolate, acuminate; lamina 7–9 cm long, 0.8–1.2 cm wide, bright green; lateral veins faint, at c. 45°; intramarginal vein up to 1 mm from margin; petiole terete, 14–18 mm long. Umbels 7-flowered, pendulous; peduncle pruinose, 25–40 mm long; pedicels pruinose, 10–15 mm long. Buds obovoid; operculum conical, pruinose, 4–6 mm long, c. 6 mm wide; hypanthium obconical to suburceolate, pruinose, 6–8 mm long, c. 6 mm wide; stamens pale yellow. Fruits globular-urceolate, 25–35 mm long, 18–25 mm wide; disc vertical. Seeds irregularly pyramidal, black, shining.
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