Tree to 25 m, sometimes to 40 m. Bark fibrous, stringy, red-brown on trunk and larger branches. Juvenile leaves alternate, petiolate, ovate to lanceolate, sometimes cordate, stellate hairy, discolorous. Adult leaves alternate, narrowly lanceolate to lanceolate, often falcate, acuminate; lamina 8–15 cm long, 1–2.5 cm wide, dark green, discolorous; lateral veins just visible, at 50°–60°; intramarginal vein up to 1 mm from margin; petiole channelled, 10–20 mm long. Umbels 7-flowered; peduncle flattened or angular, 15–27 mm long; pedicels 2–11 mm long. Buds clavate; operculum hemispherical, apiculate, 2–3 mm long, 3–4 mm wide; hypanthium obconical, faintly 2-ribbed, 4–5 mm long, 3–4 mm wide. Fruits ovoid, globular or suburceolate, 4-lobed at rim, 8–14 mm long, 8–16 mm wide; disc broad; valves 3, level or just exserted.
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