Tree to 40 m. Bark smooth throughout, orange-red or yellow-green to grey or yellow-bronze. Juvenile leaves opposite, elliptic, sessile, becoming alternate, petiolate, orbicular, shining, dark green, slightly discolorous or concolorous. Adult leaves alternate, lanceolate to broadly lanceolate, subcrenulate, acuminate; lamina 8–12 cm long, 2–3 cm wide, shining, dark green, concolorous; lateral veins at 25°–30°; intramarginal vein up to 4 mm from margin; petiole terete, 15–30 mm long. Umbels 3-flowered; peduncle flattened or angular, 3–9 mm long; pedicels absent or to 2 mm long. Buds ovoid, slightly wrinkled; operculum low-hemispherical, shortly umbonate, 4–6 mm long, 6–9 mm wide; hypanthium obconical, angular or 2-ribbed, 5–6 mm long, 6–9 mm wide. Fruits obconical to hemispherical, wrinkled, 2-or 3-ribbed, 7–8 mm long, 9–13 mm wide; disc broad, level or slightly ascending; valves 3 or 4, exserted.
Usually found on badly drained sandstone; at elevationss from 600-2,600 metres. Montane forests on sites subject to some waterlogging on peaty, sandy soils.
More
Grows on mountains andplateaus in mountain podsolic soils, in tall forest and tall open forest.
Home
