Tree to 22 m. Bark rough, fibrous throughout, grey. Juvenile leaves alternate or opposite, sessile or almost so, elliptic, ovate or broadly lanceolate, green or slightly glaucous, slightly discolorous. Adult leaves alternate, narrowly lanceolate to lanceolate, acuminate; lamina 7.5–14 cm long, 1–2.5 cm wide, dull, blue-green to green; lateral veins clearly visible, at 20°–40°; intramarginal vein up to 1 mm from margin; petiole terete, 8–17 mm long. Peduncle terete or quadrangular, 4–6 mm long; pedicels 1–3 mm long. Buds ovoid or ±fusiform; operculum conical, shortly apiculate, 2–4 mm long, 3–4 mm wide; hypanthium hemispherical to obconical, c. 3 mm long, 3–4 mm wide. Fruits hemispherical to subglobular, 4–7 mm long, 4–6 mm wide; disc ascending; valves exserted.
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