Tree to 40 m. Bark rough, fibrous, grey-brown on trunk and larger branches, then smooth and grey on smaller branches. Juvenile leaves opposite, sessile, broadly lanceolate to ovate or suborbicular, amplexicaul, dull, green, slightly discolorous. Adult leaves alternate, narrowly lanceolate, sometimes falcate, acuminate; lamina 8.5–19 cm long, 0.8–1.6 cm wide, green, concolorous; lateral veins faint, at 20°–40°; intramarginal vein up to 1 mm from margin; petiole slightly flattened, 8–12 mm long. Umbels 7-flowered; peduncle terete or quadrangular, 2–9 mm long; pedicels absent or to 3 mm long. Buds ovoid or fusiform; operculum conical, 2–3 mm long and wide; hypanthium obconical, 2–3 mm long and wide. Fruits hemispherical, obconical or subcampanulate, 3–5 mm long, 3–6 mm wide; disc broad, ascending; valves 3 or 4, slightly exserted.
Open forest near watercourses; at elevations from 500-1,200 metres. Locally frequent, in grassy woodland on relatively fertile soils on broad cold flats.
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Grows on flats and near watercoursesin clay-loam and alluvial soil in open forest.
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