Tree to 6 m. Bark rough, fibrous, grey on trunk, then smooth and green or green-grey above. Juvenile leaves opposite, sessile, broadly elliptic to suborbicular, grey-green, glaucous on midribs, discolorous. Adult leaves alternate, lanceolate, acute, thin; lamina 7.5–15 cm long, 2.5–3.8 cm wide, green, concolorous; lateral veins faint, at 35°–45°; intramarginal vein up to 3 mm from margin; petiole flattened, 12–20 mm long. Umbels 7–15-flowered; peduncle thick, quadrangular, 2–5 mm long; pedicels absent. Buds ovoid or subglobular; operculum hemispherical or conical, c. 2 mm long, 3–4 mm wide; hypanthium hemispherical, glaucous, 2–3 mm long, 3–4 mm wide. Fruits hemispherical to slightly obconical, 5–6 mm long, 4–5 mm wide; disc narrow, level or slightly descending; valves 3 or 4, level or just exserted.
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