Mallee to 6 m, dense, compact, sometimes straggly. Bark at first smooth, red-brown, later deciduous in longitudinally curling flakes. Juvenile leaves opposite, becoming alternate, petiolate, orbicular, subglaucous. Adult leaves usually alternate, sometimes opposite, obovate, retuse; lamina 2–4 cm long, 1.5–2.5 cm wide, dull, grey-green; lateral veins faint, at 40°–45°; intramarginal vein up to 2 mm from margin; petiole terete, 6–15 mm long. Umbels 7-flowered; peduncle terete, 10–15 mm long; pedicels angular, 6–8 mm long. Buds globular or broadly ovoid, glaucous; operculum hemispherical-conical, 3–4 mm long, 4–6 mm wide; hypanthium shallowly hemispherical, 2–3 mm long, 3–5 mm wide. Fruits shallowly hemispherical, 5–8 mm long, 8–12 mm wide, glaucous; disc ascending, convex; valves 4, exserted. Seeds irregularly crescent-shaped, red-brown.
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