Mallee to 6 m, sometimes a tree. Bark rough, fibrous or flaky, grey on trunk and larger branches, smooth, shining, grey or orange-grey above. Juvenile leaves subopposite or alternate, shortly petiolate, ovate or broadly lanceolate, green. Adult leaves lanceolate, uncinate; lamina 6–11 cm long, 1–2 cm wide, grey-green, dull, glandular; lateral veins faint, at 40°–50°; intramarginal vein up to 1 mm from margin; petiole terete or slightly flattened, 8–12 mm long. Umbels 7–11-flowered; peduncle terete or quadrangular, 4–8 mm long; pedicels 2–3 mm long. Buds fusiform; operculum conical or rostrate, 4–6 mm long, 3–4 mm wide; hypanthium obconical or hemispherical, 2–3 mm long, 3–4 mm wide. Fruits hemispherical or obconical, 4–5 mm long, 5–6 mm wide; valves 3 or 4.
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