Tree, often to 18 m, sometimes to 30 m. Bark smooth throughout, white or grey. Juvenile leaves ovate, pale green or glaucous, slightly discolorous. Adult leaves lanceolate to broadly lanceolate, acuminate, moderately thick; lamina 12–18 cm long, 2–3 cm wide, dull, green; lateral veins at 40°–50°; intramarginal vein up to 3 mm from margin; petiole flattened, 15–20 mm long. Umbels 7-flowered; peduncle angular or flattened, 12–20 mm long; pedicels 2–5 mm long. Buds conical, glaucous; operculum conical, 6–10 mm long, 5–6 mm wide; hypanthium hemispherical or obconical, 2–4 mm long, 5–6 mm wide. Fruits hemispherical or ovoid, 7–10 mm long, 7–10 mm wide; disc broad, ascending; valves 3–5. Seeds brown-black.
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