Shrub c. 1 m high (to 4 m tree), variably stellate. Branchlets slender, ±terete, smooth, minutely or coarsely stellate. Leaves ovate-oblong and constricted below apex (Grampians and Tas.) or narrowly elliptic-oblong or oblong (Gippsland), 6–55 mm long, 2–10 mm wide, flat, or with slightly recurved margins (Grampians), ±serrate or denticulate to entire, truncate to strongly retuse or bilobed, leathery, smooth adaxially, glabrous (at least abaxially). Inflorescence corymbose or of axillary pedunculate clusters; pedicels slender, 2–8 mm long. Calyx lobes deltate, c. 0.5 mm long. Petals spreading, narrowly elliptic, 3–5 mm long, red to white. Stamens equal to petals. Gynophore shortly cylindrical, 0.2–0.4 mm high. Carpels 2 or 3 (4); ovary glabrous or rarely hirsute. Cocci c. 5 mm long, with rostrum c. 1 mm long.
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