Tree to 15 m. Bark smooth throughout, light brown, white-grey or pink-grey, or sometimes rough, scaly at trunk base. Juvenile leaves opposite, sessile, orbicular, crenulate, amplexicaul, glaucous, slightly discolorous. Adult leaves alternate, lanceolate, often undulate, acuminate, thin; lamina 5–10 cm long, 1.2–2.3 cm wide, grey-green to glaucous, concolorous; lateral veins faint, at 35°–50°; intramarginal vein up to 1 mm from margin; petiole terete, 12–20 mm long. Umbels 3-flowered; peduncle slightly flattened or angular, 7–10 mm long; pedicels 1–4 mm long. Buds turbinate, glaucous; operculum hemispherical, rostrate, 3–4 mm long, 4–7 mm wide; hypanthium obconical, 4–5 mm long, 4–7 mm wide. Fruits cylindrical, glaucous, 7–9 mm long, 5–6 mm wide; disc moderately broad, descending; valves 4 or 5, included.