Tree to 16 m. Bark rough, fibrous, finely tessellated, grey to grey-brown on trunk and larger branches, then smooth and grey above. Juvenile leaves lanceolate, green, slightly discolorous. Adult leaves narrowly lanceolate to lanceolate, acute; lamina 8–15 cm long, 0.7–2 cm wide, shining, green; lateral veins at 15°–30°; intramarginal vein up to 1 mm from margin; petiole 10–15 mm long. Conflorescence terminal panicles or axillary umbels; umbels 7–11-flowered; peduncle terete, 3–6 mm long; pedicels 1–2 mm long. Buds ovoid; operculum hemispherical or bluntly conical, 1–2 mm long, c. 2 mm wide; hypanthium obconical or hemispherical, c. 2 mm long and wide. Fruits obconical or subcampanulate, 3–4 mm long, 2–3 mm wide; valves usually 4, just included.
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