Tree with bark dark on older specimens. Branchlets thin and often pendulous. Leaves lanceolate and long-pointed with a distinct ridge on the back. Flower clusters to 5 cm long and less than 5 mm wide on current season's growth, generally drooping, pale pink. Sepals, petals and stamens 5. Lower bracts entire, about as long as the flower stalks.
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Source: (1997). Tamaricaceae. In: . Horticultural Flora of South-eastern Australia. Volume 2. Flowering plants. Dicotyledons. Part 1. The identification of garden and cultivated plants. University of New South Wales Press.
