Dense shrub or small tree to c. 5 m high; bark on smaller stems smooth, flaky, persistent and fibrous on larger stems. Young stems with a wide flange near base of petiole. Leaves narrowly elliptic to narrowly lanceolate, usually 20–40 mm long, 2–5 mm wide, flat or margins recurved, ± glabrous, often lemon-scented; apex obtuse, retuse or acute, sometimes acuminate, flat or recurved. Flowers 10–15 mm diam.; hypanthium 3–4 mm long, ± glabrous, with obvious glands; pedicel to c. 1 mm long; sepals broadly triangular to hemispherical, 1.5–2.5 mm long, mostly glabrous (occasionally with crisped hairs along margins), deciduous, occasionally somewhat tardily; petals c. 5–6 mm long, white; ovary 5–locular, apex glabrous. Fruit somewhat persistent, broadly hemispherical, c. 6 mm diam., surface ultimately shedding in papery flakes, valves woody, strongly exserted; seeds c. 2 mm long, with finely striate surface pattern. Flowers mostly Dec.–Jan.
VVP, GipP, DunT, HSF. Native to Queensland and New South Wales, commonly cultivated, plants occasionally spreading from old gardens.
