Tree to 18 m tall, often much smaller and with several stems. Forming a lignotuber.Soft fibrous, papery rough bark over the lower trunk, rough bark orange brown to pinkish brown to yellowish brown to white. Upper trunk and large branches with white to pale creamy yellow smooth bark. Branchlets glaucous with oil glands in the pith.Juvenile growth (coppice or field seedlings to 50 cm): stems rounded in cross-section, hairy; juvenile leaves opposite or alternate, petiolate, ovate, 4–9 cm long, 2–5.5 cm wide, base usually rounded but sometimes truncate or weakly lobed, apex rounded to acute, dull green, with stellate hairs.Adult leaves alternate petioles 1–2.5 cm long; blade narrowly lanceolate to lanceolate, 8.5–16.5(18.5) cm long, (1)1.3–2.5(3.5) cm wide, base tapering to petiole, discolorous, dull green, rarely grey-green, side-veins at a wider angle than 45° to the midrib, venation dense, intramarginal vein present and very close to the margin, oil glands normally intersectional, sometimes island.Inflorescence axillary single, peduncles 1.6–3 cm long, buds 7 per umbel, sessile to shortly pedicellate, pedicels 0–0.5 cm long. Mature buds fusiform to ± diamond-shaped (1.6–2.1 cm long, 0.8–1.1 cm wide), glaucous, calyx fused to the corolla and evident as 4 small teeth at the apex of the bud, hypanthium longitudinally striated or ribbed, operculum conical, stamens inflexed, anthers oblong, versatile, dorsifixed, dehiscing by longitudinal slits (non-confluent), style long, hooked or bent beneath the apex of the bud, stigma tapered, locules usually 3, the ovules usually arranged in 4 or sometimes 6 distinct vertical rows on the placentae. Flowers orange.Fruit sessile, truncate-ovoid to slightly urceolate, longitudinally ribbed, 3–7.5 cm long, 3–6.5 cm wide, glaucous, disc vertically to obliquely descending, valves 3, enclosed.Seeds dull dark grey to black, ± flattened to obliquely pyramidal to ± cuboid, 5–8 mm long, ventral surfaced ribbed, dorsal surface smooth, hilum ventral. Cultivated seedlings (measured at node 10): not seen
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