Tree to 9 m, crooked. Bark smooth, white. Juvenile leaves opposite, ovate, cordate or broadly lanceolate, perfoliate, undulate, glaucous, concolorous. Adult leaves opposite, broadly lanceolate or cordate, sessile or perfoliate, thick; lamina 9–16 cm long, 6–10 cm wide, glaucous, concolorous; lateral veins conspicuous, at 40°–60°; intramarginal vein up to 4 mm from margin with a second vein further in. Umbels 7-flowered; peduncle thick, terete, 10–15 mm long; pedicels absent. Buds turbinate to fusiform, glaucous; operculum conical, 5–10 mm long and wide; hypanthium obconical, 5–7 mm long and wide. Fruits hemispherical to turbinate, 6–10 mm long and wide; disc convex or level; valves 3 or 4, exserted.