Tree to 18 m, usually deciduous. Bark white, more or less powdery, often with flakes of deciduous bark adhering. Juvenile leaves opposite, ovate to broadly lanceolate, grey-green, discolorous. Leaves on mature trees opposite, oblong to ovate, apiculate, cordate to amplexicaul, thick; lamina 8–17 cm long, 4–8 cm wide, grey-green, discolorous; lateral veins visible, at 50°–70°; intramarginal vein up to 4 mm from margin; petiole absent or angular, to 7 mm long. Umbel 3–7-flowered; peduncle quadrangular, 5–13 mm long; pedicels terete, to 3 mm long, or absent. Buds subglobular to ovoid, glaucous, 2–4-ribbed; operculum hemispherical, sometimes apiculate, 2–3 mm long, 4–5 mm wide; hypanthium hemispherical or obconical, 3–5 mm long, 4–5 mm wide. Fruits hemispherical to obconical, sometimes 1-or 2-ribbed, often glaucous, 4–5 mm long, 5–7 mm wide; disc convex; valves 3 or 4, just exserted.
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