Tree to 9 m tall; bark rough at base of trunk, grey-black, crumbly to flaky, smooth and pinkish-white or coppery above. Juvenile leaves petiolate, opposite for a few pairs then alternate, ovate, to 15 cm long, 8 cm wide, dull, grey-green to green; adult leaves petiolate, alternate, lanceolate to falcate, 10–18 cm long, 1.5–3(–3.7) cm wide, glossy, green; reticulation dense, with obscure intersectional glands. Inflorescences axillary, unbranched; peduncles to 2.8 cm long, broadly flattened, usually glaucous, 7-flowered; buds sessile or subsessile, to 2.5 cm long, 1.2 cm wide, non-glaucous; hypanthium ridged, sometimes faintly ribbed; operculum rounded or bluntly conical; stamens mostly inflexed; anthers versatile, dorsifixed, oblong; ovules in 4 vertical rows; flowers yellow. Fruit sessile, campanulate, to 1.8 cm long, 1.5 cm diam., faintly ribbed; disc descending; valves (3)4, rim level or exserted; seed glossy, red-brown, pyramidal or D-shaped, with 2 seedcoats, smooth, hilum terminal. Flowers Nov.–Mar.
MuM, Wim, VVP, GipP. Native to southern Western Australia. Often cultivated in semi-arid regions, occasionally noted as sparingly established in north-western Victoria.
