Tree, usually to 14 m, sometimes to 28 m. Bark rough throughout, fibrous, compact, more or less tessellated, grey or brown-grey. Juvenile leaves alternate, ovate, grey-green, slightly discolorous. Adult leaves broadly to narrowly lanceolate, acute; lamina 11–24 cm long, 1.2–3 cm wide, blue-green or grey-green; lateral veins visible, at 35°–50°; intramarginal vein up to 1 mm from margin; petiole terete, 20–30 mm long. Conflorescence axillary and terminal. Umbels 7–11-flowered; peduncle terete or angular, 4–20 mm long; pedicels 2–8 mm long. Buds clavate to ovoid; operculum hemispherical, apiculate or conical, 3–5 mm long, 4–7 mm wide; hypanthium obconical or campanulate, 4–6 mm long, 4–7 mm wide. Fruits ovoid or subcampanulate, 6–11 mm long, 5–10 mm wide; disc broad, descending; valves 4 or 5, level, included or slightly exserted.