Small to medium-sized tree to 25 m high. Forming a lignotuber.Bark smooth, pink to orange to dull pink-grey (occasionally cream), weathering to grey or grey brown. Glands (or ducts) sometimes present in the pith but only seen just below the nodes on young branchlets.Juvenile growth (coppice or field seedlings to 50 cm): stem rounded in cross-section, pubescent; juvenile leaves opposite, sessile or rarely shortly petiolate, narrowly lanceolate, 4.5–14 cm long, 0.7–2.8 cm wide, base amplexicaul (sessile) to lobed or tapering to petiole (petiolate), margin entire, apex acute, green, leaf hairs absent or rarely present.Adult leaves opposite, petioles 0.6–1.5 cm long; blade lanceolate to falcate, 5.5–16 cm long, 0.6–2.2 cm wide, flat, base tapering to petiole, margin entire, apex acute, discolorous, glossy green, penniveined, densely to very densely reticulate, intramarginal vein present, oil glands obscure or apparently absent.Inflorescence terminal compound, peduncles 0.9–3.2 cm long, buds 3 per umbel, rarely 7, pedicellate (pedicels 0.3–0.8 cm long). Mature buds globular (0.4–0.6 cm long, 0.4–0.5 cm wide), hypanthium glabrous (rarely pubescent), longitudinally ribbed, petals white with a green keel, stamens inflexed, anthers oblong, versatile, dehiscing by longitudinal slits (non-confluent), style long, stigma blunt, mop-like, locules 3 or 4, the placentae each with 5 vertical ovule rows. Flowers white or creamy white.Fruit pedicellate (pedicels 0.4–1.5 cm long), barrel-shaped to cup-shaped (rarely urceolate), (0.8–) 1–1.5 cm long, 0.7–1.2 cm wide, longitudinal ribs absent or slight, fruit wall thin, disc descending, valves 3 or 4, enclosed.Seeds reddish brown, 6–8 mm long, flattened-ellipsoidal, dorsal surface smooth, hilum ventral.
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