This mallee grows to 8m tall. Its bark is smooth, bronze-grey, and sheds in ribbons. The bark on the lower parts of the largest stems is thin dark grey and box-like.
The juvenile leaves are blue-green, dull, disjunct-opposite, ovate to lanceolate, 60-115mm long, 15-40mm wide; with petioles (stem of the leaf) 2-12mm long. Adult leaves are glossy green, disjunct-opposite, lanceolate, acute or apiculate, 60-130mm long, 8-22mm wide; with petioles 4-15mm long.
Mature buds are ovoid, 5-6mm long, 2-4mm diameter. Fruits are cup-shaped, 4-locular, 4-5mm long, 4-6mm diameter. Valves ar broadly triangular, obtuse, deeply enclosed, strongly raised and appressed against disc.
Distribution
Known only from a single dense stand near Singleton in the lower Hunter Valley. Here it is locally dominant stand over about ten hectares with a number of smaller outlying stands over a 2.5 km range.
Habitat and ecology
- Very restricted in range, but locally dominant, occurring as a dense mallee stand over about three hectares, on a low broad ridgetop on loam over sandstone.
- Occurs on a low broad ridgetop on loam over sandstone. The understorey consists of grasses and scattered shrubs, with bare ground and litter.
- Eucalyptus fibrosa and Corymbia maculata grow adjacent to, but not within, the stand.
Regional distribution and habitat
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