Mallee to 5 m. Bark smooth throughout, grey to grey-brown or pink. Juvenile leaves opposite, sessile, connate, elliptic to orbicular or ovate, glaucous, discolorous. Adult leaves alternate or subopposite, lanceolate to narrowly lanceolate, acuminate; lamina 7.5–12 cm long, 0.7–1.5 cm wide, light green or grey-green, concolorous; lateral veins faint, at 25°–40°; intramarginal vein up to 1 mm from margin; petiole flattened, 2–7 mm long. Umbels 7-flowered; peduncle flattened, 5–10 mm long; pedicels absent or extremely short. Buds fusiform, often glaucous; operculum conical or hemispherical, apiculate, 2–3 mm long, 3–4 mm wide; hypanthium obconical, 3–4 mm long and wide. Fruits hemispherical to cylindrical, 4–6 mm long and wide; disc narrow, slightly convex, then descending; valves 3 or 4, level.
Home
