Tree to 18 m. Bark rough, fibrous, hard throughout, grey. Juvenile leaves elliptic to ovate or broadly lanceolate, green, slightly discolorous. Adult leaves lanceolate to narrowly lanceolate, acuminate; lamina 5–12 cm long, 1–2 cm wide, green; lateral veins faint, at 15°–40°; intramarginal vein up to 3 mm from margin; petiole terete, 4–10 mm long. Umbels 7-flowered; peduncle terete, 3–4 mm long; pedicels absent or to 2 mm long. Buds ovoid to fusiform; operculum conical, 2–3 mm long and wide; hypanthium obconical, c. 2 mm long, 2–3 mm wide. Fruits obconical, 2–3 mm long, 3–5 mm wide; disc narrow, level; valves 3 or 4, exserted or level.