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. Also SA. In Victoria, restricted to the Dergholm and Langkoop area, occurring on well-watered but impoverished sandy loams.
