Tree to 10 m. Bark white, powdery, often black-spotted. Juvenile leaves subopposite, ovate to orbicular, subglaucous, concolorous. Adult leaves alternate, rarely opposite, narrowly lanceolate to lanceolate, shortly apiculate, thin; lamina 5–10 cm long, 1–2 cm wide, yellow-green or subglaucous, concolorous; lateral veins faint, at c. 40°; intramarginal vein almost confluent with margin; petiole slightly flattened or angular, 8–15 mm long. Umbels 7–11-flowered; peduncle slender, terete, 4–10 mm long; pedicels terete, 2–3 mm long. Buds ovoid to fusiform, glaucous; operculum hemispherical, sometimes apiculate, 2–3 mm long, 3–4 mm wide; hypanthium hemispherical, 2–3 mm long, 3–4 mm wide. Fruits hemispherical, 5–8 mm long, 4–6 mm wide; disc narrow, descending; valves 3, exserted.
Grows on low stony hills, plateaus, slopes and stonysandplains in open woodland and as scattered individuals.
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