Shrub or tree to 10 m. Bark smooth throughout, white-grey, or yellow or pink when fresh. Juvenile leaves broadly elliptic or orbicular, apiculate, subglaucous. Adult leaves elliptic or lanceolate, markedly uncinate, thick; lamina 5–10 cm long, 1–2 cm wide, grey-green; lateral veins faint, at 15°–30°; intramarginal vein distinct, up to 1 mm from margin; petiole terete or channelled, 10–15 mm long. Umbels 3-flowered, sometimes up to 9-flowered; peduncle terete to angular, 5–10 mm long; pedicels absent or to 4 mm long. Operculum flattened-hemispherical, glaucous, warty, 1–2 mm long, 3–5 mm wide; hypanthium obconical, glaucous, 4–5 mm long, 3–5 mm wide. Fruits hemispherical or obconical, often 2-ribbed, glaucous, 7–11 mm long, 10–13 mm wide; disc broad, level; valves 3 or 4, level.
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