Tree to 40 m. Bark rough, fibrous, grey to 6 m, sometimes tessellated, then smooth above and orange-red, olive-green or cream. Juvenile leaves broadly ovate to orbicular, strongly crenulate, slightly shining, bright green, slightly discolorous. Adult leaves ovate or broadly lanceolate to lanceolate, usually crenulate, often undulate, acute; lamina 6.5–14 cm long, 1.5–3 cm wide, green; lateral veins faint, at 25°–45°; intramarginal vein up to 5 mm from margin; petiole terete, 10–30 mm long. Umbels usually 7-flowered, sometimes more; peduncle angular, 5–12 mm long; pedicels 1–5 mm long. Buds fusiform to almost obovoid; operculum conical, or almost rostrate, 3–5 mm long and wide; hypanthium obconical, 2–4 mm long, 3–5 mm wide. Fruits obconical or almost hemispherical, 5–8 mm long, 5–7 mm wide; disc narrow, level or ascending; valves 3 or 4, level or exserted.
Grows on slopes, ridge tops and in alluvial areas near watercourses,in tall open forest and sometimes near or in rainforest.
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