Tree to 5 m. Bark fibrous throughout, white to yellow-grey. Juvenile leaves opposite, lanceolate to broadly lanceolate. Adult leaves narrowly lanceolate, sometimes falcate, acuminate or uncinate; lamina 16–18 cm long, 1.5–2 cm wide, shining, green; lateral veins faint or just visible, at 40°–50°; intramarginal vein up to 1 mm from margin; petiole terete, 10–15 mm long. Umbels 7-flowered; peduncle quadrangular, 5–10 mm long; pedicels 3–5 mm long. Mature buds not seen, but immature buds fusiform; operculum conical, slightly longer than hypanthium; hypanthium obconical. Fruits obconical or campanulate, 5–8 mm long, 4–5 mm wide; disc broad, level and just included or obliquely descending; valves 3–5, exserted.