Tree to 15 m. Bark white or cream to salmon-coloured. Juvenile leaves alternate, ovate to suborbicular, sometimes cordate, dull, grey-green, concolorous. Adult leaves alternate, ovate or triangular, shortly apiculate, thick; lamina 6–15 cm long, 6–13 cm wide, shining, green, concolorous; lateral veins conspicuous, at 35°–45°; intramarginal vein up to 3 mm from margin, often with another further in; petiole terete or angular, 30–55 mm long. Umbels 7-flowered; peduncle thick, angular, 8–14 mm long; pedicels thick, angular, 1–3 mm long. Buds ovoid to subglobular; operculum hemispherical, sometimes apiculate, 4–6 mm long, 8–10 mm wide; hypanthium hemispherical, 5–8 mm long, 8–10 mm wide. Fruits hemispherical or turbinate, 5–9 mm long, 6–12 mm wide; disc broad, level or descending; valves 4, level or just exserted.
Grows in alluvial soils, from sand to clay, often inundated during the wetseason, in open forest and woodland.
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