Tree to 10 m tall; bark often loose and rough near base, mostly smooth light grey to pinkish-grey. Juvenile leaves petiolate, opposite for few pairs then alternate, ovate, to 12 cm long, 6 cm wide, green; adult leaves petiolate, alternate, broadly lanceolate to lanceolate, 8.5–15 cm long, 1.3–2 cm wide, concolorous, dull to slightly glossy; reticulation dense, apparently glandless. Inflorescences terminal panicles; peduncles to 1 cm long, 7-flowered; buds pedicellate, clavate, to 0.8 cm long, 0.4 cm diam., scar present; operculum hemispherical to conical; stamens inflexed with outer staminodes; anthers adnate, cuboid; ovules in 4 vertical rows; flowers white. Fruit pedicellate, obconical to barrel-shaped, to 0.9 cm long, 0.6 cm diam.; disc descending; valves 3 or 4, below thin, often split rim; seed brown, irregularly ovoid and slightly flattened, surface shallowly reticulate, hilum ventral. Flowers May–Dec.
Wim, GleP, DunT. Also SA. In Victoria, restricted to the Dergholm and Langkoop area, occurring on well-watered but impoverished sandy loams.
