Mallee to 4 m. Bark smooth, grey-brown, deciduous in strips which accumulate at base. Juvenile leaves alternate, petiolate, ovate, green. Adult leaves alternate, ovate-lanceolate to broadly lanceolate, acuminate; lamina 8–19 cm long, 2–4.5 cm wide, dull, grey-green; lateral veins faint, at 35°–45°; intramarginal vein up to 1 mm from margin; petiole terete or flattened, 12–30 mm long. Umbels 7-flowered; peduncle terete, thick, 3–6 mm long; pedicels absent or very short. Buds ovoid; operculum conical or hemispherical, rostrate, ribbed, 10–12 mm long, 8–12 mm wide; hypanthium hemispherical, 9–10 mm long, 8–12 mm wide. Fruits subglobular or hemispherical, ribbed, 14–21 mm long, 16–20 mm wide; disc ascending steeply; valves 4 or 5, exserted. Seeds irregularly crescent-shaped or subpyramidal, narrowly winged, ridged on ventral surface, red-grey-brown.
More
A small tree. It grows 2-4 m high. It spreads 2-5 m wide. The bark is flaky lower down but smooth higher up. The leaves are thick. The buds are ribbed. The flowers are cream. The capsules occur in bunches and are ribbed.
Home
