Tree to 22 m high. Bark smooth throughout, though often with accumulated decorticating bark at trunk base, grey to brown-grey to almost black. Juvenile leaves ovate, emarginate, green, slightly discolorous. Adult leaves ovate or broadly lanceolate, sometimes emarginate; lamina 6–13 cm long, 3.8–5 cm wide, shining, green; lateral veins distinct, at 35°–40°; intramarginal vein up to 2 mm from margin; petiole terete, 25–40 mm long. Umbels 7-flowered; peduncle terete, 10–18 mm long; pedicels 2–5 mm long. Buds fusiform; operculum conical or slightly rostrate, 4–5 mm long, 3–5 mm wide; hypanthium obconical, 2–3 mm long, 3–5 mm wide. Fruits obconical, 4–6 mm long and wide; disc narrow, level or slightly ascending; valves 3 or 4, level or slightly exserted. [For more recent description see subspecies profiles-Editor]
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