Tree to 90 m. Bark fibrous, stringy, furrowed throughout, grey to red-brown. Juvenile leaves ovate, oblique, often shortly acuminate; shining. Adult leaves broadly lanceolate, acuminate, lamina 10–15 cm long, 1.5–3.3 cm wide, dark green, shining; lateral veins just visible, at 20°–30°; intramarginal vein c. 1 mm from margin; petiole channelled, 7–17 mm long. Umbels with 11 or more flowers; peduncle angular or flattened, 4–15 mm long; pedicels 1–6 mm long. Buds clavate; operculum hemispherical, apiculate, 1–2 mm long, 2–3 mm wide; hypanthium obconical, 2–4 mm long, 2–3 mm wide. Fruits ovoid, subglobular, barrel-shaped or urceolate, 6–11 mm long, 5–9 mm wide; disc level or steeply descending; valves 3 or 4, level to included. Seeds brown.
Tree to 90 m with grey to red-brown furrowed stringy fibrous bark throughout.. Juvenile leaves ovate, oblique; adult broadly lanceolate, 10–15 cm long, 1.5–5 cm wide, shining; petiole channelled, 0.7–1.7 cm long.. Umbels 11-or more-flowered; peduncles angular or flattened, 0.4–1.5 cm long; pedicels 1–6 mm long.. Buds clavate; operculum hemispherical, 1–2 mm long, 2–3 mm wide, apiculate.. Calyx-tube 2–4 mm long, 2–3 mm wide.. Fruits ovoid, subglobose, barrel-shaped or urceolate, 6–11 mm long, 5–9 mm wide with level or steeply descending disc and 3–4 included valves.. Fig. 8/27, p. 41.