Tree to 20 m. Bark rough, fibrous throughout, grey-brown. Juvenile leaves alternate, petiolate, elliptic, grey-green, concolorous. Adult leaves alternate, lanceolate, acuminate; lamina 5–10 cm long, 1–1.5 cm wide, green; lateral veins just visible, at 30°–40°; intramarginal vein up to 1 mm from margin; petiole slightly flattened or terete, 6–18 mm long. Peduncle terete, 2–5 mm long; pedicels 1–3 mm long. Buds ovoid to obovoid or ±fusiform; operculum conical or hemispherical, 1–2 mm long, 2–3 mm wide; hypanthium hemispherical, 2–3 mm long and wide. Fruits hemispherical, 3–4 mm long, 4–5 mm wide; disc level; valves 3 or 4, level or exserted.
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