Tree to 15 m high, often straggly. Bark rough, fibrous throughout, grey-brown. Juvenile leaves opposite, sessile, orbicular, light green, slightly discolorous. Adult leaves alternate, lanceolate, acuminate; lamina 10–22 cm long, 1.3–3 cm wide, slightly shining, green, concolorous; lateral veins faint, at 15°–35°; intramarginal vein up to 2 mm from margin; petiole terete, 20–30 mm long. Umbels 7-flowered; peduncle flattened, 5–15 mm long; pedicels absent. Buds ovoid, angular; operculum conical, 3–5 mm long, 3–6 mm wide; hypanthium obconical, often angular, 4–6 mm long, 3–6 mm wide. Fruits cylindrical, 6–10 mm long, 6–8 mm wide; disc narrow, descending; valves 3 or 4, level or included. [For more recent description see subspecies profiles-Editor]
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