Tree to 18 m. Bark rough, fibrous throughout, grey or grey-brown. Juvenile leaves opposite, sessile, orbicular, cordate, sometimes emarginate, sometimes crenulate, dull, grey or glaucous, concolorous. Adult leaves alternate, lanceolate to narrowly lanceolate, acute or acuminate; lamina 15–25 cm long, 1.8–3 cm wide, grey-green to glaucous, concolorous; lateral veins distinct, at 20°–40°; intramarginal vein up to 2 mm from margin; petiole terete, 20–30 mm long. Umbels 7-flowered; peduncle thick, angular or flattened, 4–10 mm long; pedicels absent. Buds cylindrical, glaucous; operculum conical, 3–5 mm long, 5–6 mm wide; hypanthium cylindrical, 5–7 mm long, 5–6 mm wide. Fruits cylindrical, glaucous, 7–10 mm long, 6–9 mm wide; disc narrow, level or just descending; valves 3 or 4, level or just exserted.