Tree to 50 m. Bark rough, flaky or fibrous, grey to 4 m, then smooth and white to grey above. Juvenile leaves opposite to subopposite, sessile to shortly petiolate, ovate to suborbicular, cordate, crenulate, discolorous. Adult leaves alternate, lanceolate to narrowly lanceolate, acuminate; lamina 13–20 cm long, 1.3–2.5 cm wide, green, concolorous; lateral veins clearly visible, at 30°–45°; intramarginal vein up to 1 mm from margin; petiole terete or channelled, 22–40 mm long. Umbels 7-flowered; peduncle flattened, 7–16 mm long; pedicels angular, 1–5 mm long. Buds ovoid; operculum conical or hemispherical, apiculate, 3–4 mm long and wide; hypanthium hemispherical, 2–3 mm long, 3–4 mm wide. Fruits obconical or hemispherical, 4–5 mm long, 5–8 mm wide; disc broad, level or ascending; valves 3 or 4, exserted.
Closed forests, mainly on the lower slopes of hills and valley bottoms, but also on ridges in basaltic soils around the edge of rain forest; at elevations from 150-800 metres.
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Grows in basaltic soil on lowerslopes, valleys and ridges, in tall open forest near rainforest.
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