Tree to 20 m. Bark white, powdery, or pale yellow when fresh. Juvenile leaves broadly lanceolate, green to grey-green, slightly discolorous. Adult leaves lanceolate, falcate, acuminate, thick; lamina 10–16 cm long, 1–2 cm wide, green to grey-green; lateral veins faint, at 40°–55°; intramarginal vein confluent with or less than 1 mm from margin; petiole terete, 10–16 mm long. Peduncle dilated, 10–15 mm long; pedicels 1–3 mm long. Buds ovoid to clavate; operculum hemispherical to conical, 2–3 mm long, 3–5 mm wide; hypanthium hemispherical or obconical, 4–5 mm long, 3–5 mm wide. Fruits hemispherical to cylindrical, 5–7 mm long, 4–6 mm wide; disc narrow, descending; valves 3, rarely 4, exserted.
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