Tree to 15 m. Bark smooth throughout, white, grey or yellow-white, with insect ‘scribbles’. Juvenile leaves broadly lanceolate or ovate. Adult leaves lanceolate or broadly lanceolate, acuminate, oblique, thick; lamina 12–15 cm long, 1.5–3 cm wide, shining, green; lateral veins at 25°–35°; intramarginal vein up to 3 mm from margin; petiole channelled, 10–20 mm long. Umbels 7–15-flowered; peduncle thick, angular or flattened, 12–25 mm long; pedicels 6–8 mm long. Operculum hemispherical or conical, 2–3 mm long, 4–5 mm wide; hypanthium hemispherical, 4–5 mm long and wide. Fruits subglobular, pyriform or obconical, 6–9 mm long, 6–11 mm wide; disc conspicuous, often red, usually flat, sometimes convex; valves 4, level or included. Seeds red-brown.
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