Tree to 20 m tall. Forming a lignotuber.Bark smooth throughout, powdery, white to creamy white or pale grey; rarely with scant thin rough bark at the very base of the trunk.Branchlets lack oil glands in the pith; non-glaucous, smooth.Juvenile growth (coppice or field seedlings to 50 cm): stems rounded in cross-section, smooth; juvenile leaves petiolate, opposite or tending to sub-opposite, smaller elliptic at first soon becoming longer and lanceolate up stem, 6.5–11(19) cm long, 1.7–3 cm wide, base tapering to petiole, green, dull, glabrous.Adult leaves alternate, occasionally a pair opposite, petioles 0.5–2.1 cm long; blade lanceolate to narrowly so or slightly falcate, 7–23 cm long, 0.6–2.5 cm wide, base tapering to petiole, margin entire or coarsely indented, apex pointed, undulate, concolorous, green to slightly grey-green, dull or slightly glossy, usually with side-veins at greater than 45° to midrib, reticulation dense to very dense, intramarginal vein present, oil glands obscure.Inflorescence axillary compound or rarely terminal compound, with an expanded rhachis with 2 to 4 internodes, the basal internode 0.5–1 cm long and subsequent internodes each up to ca 0.2–0.5 cm long, peduncles variable within an inflorescence, 0.1–0.9 cm long, buds usually 3 per umbel (rarely 7), on pedicels 0.1–0.5 cm long. Mature buds pyriform (0.5–0.7 cm long, 0.4–0.5 cm wide), smooth, scar present (outer operculum shed early), operculum shallowly rounded and sometimes apiculate, stamens inflexed, all fertile, anthers ± cuboid, dorsifixed, versatile, dehiscing by longitudinal slits, style as long as or shorter than the floral cavity, straight, stigma blunt, locules 3, the ovules irregularly arranged on the placentae. Flowers creamy white, perfumed.Fruit pedicellate (pedicels 0.1–0.6 cm long), cupular to barrel-shaped or urceolate, 0.8–1.1 cm long, 0.6–1.1 cm wide, thin-walled, disc descending vertically, valves 3, enclosed.Seeds brown, 3–7 mm long, saucer-shaped, smooth, hilum ventral. Cultivated seedlings (measured at ca node 10): not grown.
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