Tree to 30 m. Bark rough, fibrous, brown-grey, longitudinally fissured on at least half the trunk, then smooth and white-grey above. Juvenile leaves opposite, sessile, orbicular, glaucous, slightly discolorous. Adult leaves alternate, lanceolate, sometimes falcate, acute; lamina 18–30 cm long, 2.5–4 cm wide, dull, grey-green, concolorous; lateral veins distinct, at 25°–40°; intramarginal vein up to 1 mm from margin; petiole terete, 18–35 mm long. Umbels 3-flowered; peduncle angular or flattened, 6–8 mm long; pedicels 2–4 mm long. Buds clavate or fusiform, glaucous; operculum conical, 3–5 mm long and wide; hypanthium obconical, 3–4 mm long, 3–5 mm wide. Fruits ovoid, glaucous, 8–12 mm long, 8–10 mm wide; disc broad, ascending; valves 3 or 4, exserted.
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