Tree to 24 m, but sometimes only to 8 m. Bark rough, fibrous throughout, grey or grey-brown, longitudinally fissured. Juvenile leaves opposite, sessile, amplexicaul, orbicular to ovate, grey-green or glaucous, slightly discolorous. Adult leaves alternate, lanceolate, acuminate; lamina 12.5–20 cm long, 1.6–2.5 cm wide, grey-green, concolorous; lateral veins faint, at 15°–20°; intramarginal vein 1–2 mm from margin; petiole terete or slightly flattened, 10–15 mm long. Umbels 7–11-flowered; peduncle slightly angular, 5–18 mm long; pedicels absent or 1–2 mm long. Buds fusiform, often glaucous; operculum conical, 2–3 mm long, 3–5 mm wide; hypanthium obconical, c. 3 mm long, 3–5 mm wide. Fruits obconical, sometimes slightly glaucous, 5–7 mm long, 5–6 mm wide; disc broad, ascending; valves 3 or 4, exserted or nearly level.
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