Tree to 70 m, occasionally to 90 m. Bark smooth throughout, yellow-white or grey, or sometimes rough, flaky, grey to black at base of trunk. Juvenile leaves opposite, sessile, broadly lanceolate to ovate, amplexicaul, glaucous, discolorous. Adult leaves alternate, lanceolate to narrowly lanceolate, acuminate; lamina 13–24 cm long, 1.5–2.5 cm wide, shining, green, concolorous; lateral veins distinct, at 20°–45°; intramarginal vein up to 3 mm from margin; petiole terete or channelled, 15–22 mm long. Umbels 7-flowered; peduncle slightly flattened, 6–15 mm long; pedicels absent. Buds ovoid to cylindrical, angular or ribbed; operculum conical, 2–3 mm long, 3–4 mm wide; hypanthium cylindrical or angular, 3–4 mm long and wide. Fruits cylindrical or ovoid, often slightly ribbed, shining, 4–7 mm long, 4–6 mm wide; disc narrow, descending; valves 3 or 4, level or slightly exserted.
Wet sclerophyll forest, often with Nothofagus species, usually on humus-rich well-drained soils; at elevations from 1,000-1,300 metres.
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Grows in loamy soils on slopes and mountain topsin tall open forest, often in pure stands.
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