Tree to 8 m tall. Forming a lignotuber.Bark smooth throughout, white to grey to brown or pink.Juvenile growth (coppice or field seedlings to 50 cm): not seen.Adult leaves alternate, petioles 1–2.3 cm long; blade lanceolate, 6–11 cm long, 0.7–2 cm wide, base tapering to petiole, margin entire, apex pointed, concolorous, dull green to grey-green, side-veins acute, reticulation moderate to dense, intramarginal vein present and usually very close to the margin.Inflorescence axillary unbranched, peduncles 0.3–0.5 cm long, buds per umbel 7, rarely in 3s, pedicels 0.1–0.2 cm long. Mature buds club-shaped to obovoid, 0.6–0.7 cm long, 0.25–0.3 cm wide (from Hill, ibid.), scar present, operculum conical, stamens irregularly inflexed, anthers oblong, versatile, dorsifixed, dehiscing by longitudinal slits, style long and straight, stigma blunt, locules 3(4), the placentae each with 6 vertical rows. Flowers white.Fruit shortly pedicellate (pedicels 0.1-0.2 cm long), cylindrical, 0.4–0.5 cm long, 0.3–0.35 cm wide, non-glaucous, disc vertically descending, valves 3(4), enclosed. Seeds brown to yellowy brown, flattened-ovoid, dorsal surface shallowly reticulate, edge of seed smooth, hilum ventral.Cultivated seedlings (measured at ca node 10): not seen
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