Tree to 30 m. Bark rough, flaky or fibrous, grey on trunk and lower branches, smooth, red-grey or grey-brown above. Juvenile leaves apparently in 3s or spirally arranged, sessile, elliptic, grey-green, decurrent. Adult leaves narrowly lanceolate, uncinate or acuminate; lamina 7–12 cm long, 0.5–1.2 cm wide, deep green, shining, glandular; lateral veins faint, at 40°–50°; intramarginal vein up to 1 mm from margin; petiole terete or slightly flattened, 8–12 mm long. Umbels 7–13-flowered; peduncle terete, 8–12 mm long; pedicels 4–6 mm long. Buds conical; operculum conical, 5–8 mm long, 4–5 mm wide; hypanthium cylindrical or hemispherical, 3–5 mm long, 4–5 mm wide. Fruits subglobular, 6–8 mm long and wide; valves 3.