Tree to 30 m. Bark rough, scaly, light grey-brown on trunk to 4 m, then smooth and white to grey above. Juvenile leaves opposite, sessile, ovate, cordate, glaucous, discolorous. Adult leaves alternate, narrowly lanceolate to lanceolate, acuminate; lamina 8–20 cm long, 1–2 cm wide, dull, green or blue-green, concolorous; lateral veins faint, at 35°–45°; intramarginal vein up to 1 mm from margin; petiole flattened, 17–30 mm long. Umbels 3-flowered; peduncle flattened, broadened upwards, 3–5 mm long; pedicels absent. Buds cylindrical, glaucous; operculum conical, c. 2 mm long, 3–4 mm wide; hypanthium cylindrical, 3–5 mm long, 3–4 mm wide. Fruits campanulate, glaucous, 5–7 mm long and wide; rim flared; disc narrow, slightly ascending; valves 3 or 4, exserted.
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