Tree to c. 10 m tall. Forming a lignotuber.Bark smooth throughout, new bark pale pink to pale orange, maturing to white and then grey.Juvenile growth (coppice or field seedlings to 50 cm): not seenAdult leaves alternate, petiole 1–3 cm; blade narrowly lanceolate to lanceolate, sometimes falcate, (10)12–25 cm long, 1–2(3) cm wide, base tapering to the petiole, margin entire, apex pointed, concolorous, glossy green, side-veins acute or at a wider angle than 45° to the midrib, reticulation dense to very dense, intramarginal vein present, oil glands small, island and intersectional.Inflorescence axillary unbranched, peduncles 0.8–1.6 cm long, buds 7 per umbel, pedicellate or sometimes shortly pedicellate (pedicels 0.2–0.3 cm long). Mature buds obovoid, 0.7–0.9 cm long, 0.5–0.6 cm wide, not glaucous, scar present, operculum ± conical to rounded, sometimes shortly apiculate (operculum 0.4–0.5 cm long), hypanthium sometimes 2 or 3-ridged, stamens irregularly flexed or with some outer stamens erect and the inner ones inflexed, anthers oblong, versatile, dorsifixed, dehiscing by longitudinal slits, style long and straight, stigma blunt, locules usually 4, the placentae each with 4 to 6 vertical rows of ovules. Flowers white.Fruit pedicellate (pedicels 0–0.4 cm long), sometimes shortly pedicellate to rarely sessile, obconical to rarely cup-shaped, 0.4–0.6 cm long, 0.6–0.9 cm wide, disc raised to ± level, convex to annular, valves 4, strongly exserted.Seeds dark brown, 1–1.5 mm long, ± obliquely pyramidal to cuboid to sometimes linear, dorsal surface shallowly reticulate, ventral surface ribbed, edge of seed sharply toothed, hilum terminal.Cultivated seedlings (measured at ca node 10): cotyledons shallowly bilobed, stem square in cross-section, not glaucous; leaves opposite for ca 8, then alternate, always petiolate, ovate, 5–8 cm long, 2–5.5 cm wide, base rounded to tapering to the petiole, green.
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