Small tree with straggly habit, to 10 m high. Forming a lignotuber.Bark rough to the small branches, fibrous, grey to 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, lanceolate to oblong, 8–15 cm long, 2–5 cm wide, base amplexicaul, margin entire, apex acute, green, pubescent or glabrous.Adult leaves opposite, usually sessile, rarely shortly petiolate, petioles 0–0.2 cm long; blade lanceolate to ovate to oblong, 6–18 cm long, 2.5–6 cm wide, flat or undulate, base amplexicaul or lobed, margin entire, apex acute, discolorous, glossy green to dull grey-green, penniveined, very densely reticulate, intramarginal vein present, oil glands small, island or obscure.Inflorescence terminal compound, peduncles 1.5–3.5 cm long, buds 3 or 7 per umbel, pedicellate (pedicels 0.8–2.3 cm long). Mature buds globular (0.7–1 cm long, 0.7–1.2 cm wide), hypanthium 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 1.6–2.2 cm long), cup-shaped to campanulate, 1.2–1.7 cm long, 1.2–1.6 cm wide, longitudinally ribbed, disc descending, valves 3 or 4, enclosed.Seeds reddish brown to brown, flattened-ellipsoidal, dorsal surface smooth, hilum ventral.
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