Tree to 30 m, more usually to 15 m. Bark rough, compact, scaly or flaky, grey-brown to 5 m, then smooth above, grey, white or sometimes green, with insect ‘scribbles’. Juvenile leaves broadly lanceolate, falcate, oblique, green, discolorous. Adult leaves lanceolate, falcate, acuminate or uncinate, oblique; lamina 8–11 cm long, 1.5–2 cm wide, green, concolorous; lateral veins faint, at 20°–30°; intramarginal vein up to 1 mm from margin; petiole flattened, 10–13 mm long. Umbels mostly 7-flowered, sometimes more; peduncle flattened or angular, 5–10 mm long; pedicels thick, 2–4 mm long. Buds clavate, usually warty; operculum conical, 1–3 mm long, 3–4 mm wide; hypanthium cylindrical-conical, 3–4 mm long and wide. Fruits subglobular or suburceolate, 8–11 mm long and wide; disc broad, descending; valves 4, included. Seeds brown.
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