Tree to 30 m tall. Forming a lignotuber.Bark rough, thick, flaky and fibrous to branches 5–8 cm diameter, orange-brown or grey.Juvenile growth (coppice or field seedlings to 50 cm): stem rounded in cross-section, warty to almost scabrid on lower stem; juvenile leaves subsessile to shortly petiolate and opposite for ca 5 nodes, then alternate, petiolate, ovate, 4.5–10 cm long, 2.5–5.5 cm wide, base rounded or tapering to petiole, dull, green to blue-green.Adult leaves alternate, petiole 1–2 cm long; blade lanceolate to falcate, 7–18.5 cm long, 0.9–2.6 cm wide, base oblique or tapering to petiole, concolorous, slightly glossy to dull, green to grey-green, side-veins acute, sparsely to moderately reticulate, intramarginal vein parallel to and well removed from margin, oil glands mostly island.Inflorescence axillary unbranched, peduncles 0.4–1.8 cm long, buds 7 to 15 or more per umbel, pedicels 0.3–0.4 cm long. Mature buds obovoid, ca 0.4 cm long, 0.2–0.3 cm wide, scar absent, operculum rounded-apiculate to conical, stamens inflexed or irregularly flexed, all fertile, anthers reniform to cordate, versatile, dorsifixed, dehiscing by confluent slits, style long, stigma tapered, locules (3)4, the placentae each with 2 vertical ovule rows. Flowers white.Fruit on pedicels 0.2–0.4 cm long, cup-shaped, barrel-shaped or campanulate, 0.6–0.7 cm long, 0.5–0.9 cm wide, disc raised-annular to slightly descending, valves (3)4, near rim level or enclosed.Seeds dark brown to grey to black, 1.5–2.5 mm long, pyramidal or obliquely pyramidal, dorsal surface smooth, hilum terminal. Cultivated seedlings (measured at ca node 10): cotyledons reniform; stems rounded in cross-section, scabrid or warty on lower part; leaves sessile or shortly petiolate, opposite, discolorous and ovate-elliptic for lower ca 5 nodes, then becoming petiolate, alternate, ovate, 7–10 cm long, 3.5–5.5 cm wide, base rounded to tapering, concolorous, dull, grey-green to green.
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A tree. It can be 20 m tall. The leaves have a red tint.
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