Tree to 30 m. Bark rough, black on trunk and larger branches, then smooth, white above. Juvenile leaves sessile or shortly petiolate, lanceolate, green, discolorous. Adult leaves lanceolate, often crenulate, acuminate, sometimes falcate; lamina 8–15 cm long, 1.5–2.5 cm wide, green, concolorous; lateral veins faint, at 40°–45°; intramarginal vein up to 1 mm from margin; petiole 12–23 mm long. Peduncle usually quadrangular, 3–13 mm long; pedicels quadrangular, 2–5 mm long. Buds obovoid to fusiform; operculum conical, slightly narrower than hypanthium, 2–4 mm long, 3–5 mm wide; hypanthium pyriform, 4–5 mm long, 3–5 mm wide. Fruits obovoid to hemispherical, 5–6 mm long, 4–5 mm wide; disc obscure, descending; valves 4, included. Seeds shallowly reticulate.
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