Mallee; bark smooth, reddish-brown or whitish-grey, with loose, partly shed strips in lower half of stems. Pith of branchlets glandular. Juvenile leaves petiolate, alternate, elliptic to ovate, to 12 cm long, 7 cm wide, dull, bluish-green; adult leaves petiolate, alternate, broadly lanceolate or falcate, 8.5–16 cm long, 1.7–3 cm wide, concolorous, dull, bluish-grey to glaucous; reticulation dense, with erose veinlets, oil glands numerous, large, irregular, intersectional. Inflorescences axillary, unbranched; peduncles thick, to 1.2 cm long, 7-flowered; buds shortly pedicellate to subsessile, oblong, to 1.3 cm long, 0.8 cm diam., scar present; operculum hemispherical to slightly beaked; stamens inflexed; anthers dorsifixed, cuneate; ovules in 4 vertical rows; flowers white. Fruit shortly pedicellate to subsessile, cupular, to 1 cm long, 0.9 cm diam.; disc descending; valves 4 or 5, to rim level; seed lustrous ruby-red, flattish, with distinct shallow reticulum, hilum ventral. Flowers spring.
LoM, MuM, Wim, GipP. Also SA. A mallee of restricted distribution in far north-western Victoria on sandy flats and low dunes, from north of Murrayville to Morkalla.
