Tree to 15 m. Bark rough, fibrous throughout, grey or grey-white. Juvenile leaves alternate, ovate, concolorous. Adult leaves broadly ovate or suborbicular; lamina 10–15 cm long, 7.5–13 cm wide, green; lateral veins visible, at 40°–50°; intramarginal vein up to 1 mm from margin; petiole terete, 25–70 mm long. Umbels 3–7-flowered; peduncle terete, 5–10 mm long; pedicels 5–8 mm long. Buds obovoid; operculum conical or hemispherical, apiculate, 3–4 mm long, 4–5 mm wide; hypanthium cylindrical to ovoid, c. 4 mm long, 4–5 mm wide. Fruits subcampanulate, subcylindrical or ovoid, 7–9 mm long, 6–8 mm wide; disc narrow, descending; valves usually 4, level or slightly exserted.
Grows on flats and gentle slopes, often alongwatercourses, in shallow loams and podsols in open forest and woodland.
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