Tree to 30 m. Bark smooth throughout, pink or orange to grey-brown. Juvenile leaves ovate, green, discolorous. Adult leaves lanceolate to broadly lanceolate, acute, thick; lamina 7.5–20 cm long, 1.5–4 cm wide, green; lateral veins at 30°–60°; intramarginal vein up to 2 mm from margin; petiole terete or channelled, 12–25 mm long. Umbels 7-flowered; peduncle angular, 5–20 mm long; pedicels 2–5 mm long. Buds cylindrical; operculum cylindrical, 7–12 mm long, 4–5 mm wide; hypanthium hemispherical, 3–4 mm long, 4–6 mm wide. Fruits hemispherical to subglobular, often angular or ribbed, 5–9 mm long and wide; disc broad, convex; valves 3 or 4. Seeds red-brown.
Grows in flat and gently sloping country, sometimes in drainagechannels, and on rock outcrops on tablelands, often as scattered trees in openforest, sometimes dominant in small areas.
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