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Voucher specimen D.Nicolle 5205 & M.E.French (original + F1 seedlings).

Mallee, <1 to 2 metres tall. Bark rough throughout, hard, moderately fissured, dark grey to black. Canopy leaves dull, grey. All parts waxy. Dominant shrub on western slopes, ridges and foot of range in stone with scattered Corymbia aparrerinja, Eucalyptus normantonensis and Grevillea wickhamii and Triodia groundstorey.

Seedling leaves ±concolorous, dull, slightly blue-green to slightly grey-green, pruinose when new. Stems terete to slightly quadrangular, smooth.

Voucher observation D.Nicolle 8587.

Trees to 16 metres tall. Bark rough on lower trunk only. Branchlets and petioles conspicuously pruinose. Common here, growing on stony/rocky hillslope, forming woodland with Corymbia drysdalensis and some C. disjuncta and Eucalyptus tectifica.