Tree to 65 m. Bark usually smooth throughout, yellow-white or grey, sometimes rough on trunk and larger branches. Juvenile leaves opposite, sessile, broadly lanceolate to ovate, shining, green, discolorous. Adult leaves alternate, lanceolate to narrowly lanceolate, sometimes falcate, acuminate; lamina 11–20 cm long, 1–2.5 cm wide, green, concolorous; lateral veins distinct, at 30°–45°; intramarginal vein up to 2 mm from margin; petiole slightly flattened, 15–25 mm long. Umbels 7-flowered; peduncle flattened, 8–22 mm long; pedicels to 5 mm long, rarely absent. Buds ovoid, angular; operculum conical, 3–4 mm long, 2–4 mm wide; hypanthium cylindrical, 7–8 mm long, 4–5 mm wide. Fruits cylindrical or ovoid, often ribbed, 5–10 mm long, 6–9 mm wide; disc moderately broad, steeply descending; valves usually 3, level or just included.
Wet forest on deep, fertile soils. Found on a wide range of sites, mainly in closed forests; at elevations up to 1,300 metres.
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Grows mainly on mountains and hills in tallopen forest.