Tree to 40 m high. Bark smooth throughout, blotched white and grey to yellow-white, and sometimes pink, green to olive, and often with c. 1 m of accumulated undecorticated bark at trunk base. Juvenile leaves opposite, sessile, amplexicaul, orbicular to ovate, light green to subglaucous, concolorous. Adult leaves alternate, narrowly lanceolate to lanceolate, acuminate, sometimes undulate, green, often shining, concolorous; lateral veins conspicuous, at 30°–45°; intramarginal vein up to 1 mm from margin; petiole terete, 15–27 mm long. Umbels 3-or 7-flowered; peduncle angular or slightly flattened; pedicels absent or 1–4 mm long. Buds ovoid; operculum conical or sometimes almost hemispherical; hypanthium hemispherical to obconical. Fruits hemispherical, ovoid or campanulate; disc moderately broad, ascending, convex or sometimes ± level; valves 3 or 4, exserted. [For more recent description see subspecies profiles-Editor]
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