Tree or shrub to 12 m. Bark grey to grey-brown. Juvenile leaves ovate-lanceolate, thick, green, almost concolorous. Adult leaves lanceolate, mucronate, thick; lamina 6–10 cm long, 1.5–2.5 cm wide, dull, green, concolorous; lateral veins faint, at 20°–35°; intramarginal vein up to 2 mm from margin; petiole channelled, 10–17 mm long. Umbels 7–many-flowered; peduncle angular or flattened, 5–10 mm long; pedicels absent. Buds fusiform; operculum conical, 2–3 mm long, 3–4 mm wide; hypanthium obconical, 3–4 mm long and wide. Fruits globular or subglobular, 4–6 mm long, 5–8 mm wide; disc broad, descending; valves 3 or 4, included.