Tree to 30 m. Bark smooth throughout, white, grey or pink-grey, often with accumulated decorticating bark forming a rough trunk base. Juvenile leaves elliptic to ovate, dull, green, discolorous. Adult leaves broadly lanceolate, undulate, acuminate; lamina 8–15 cm long, 1.7–3 cm wide, shining, green; lateral veins distinct, at 25°–40°; intramarginal vein up to 2 mm from margin; petiole terete, 17–25 mm long. Umbels 7-flowered; peduncle terete or angular, 3–14 mm long; pedicels 1–4 mm long, sometimes absent. Buds fusiform; operculum conical to slightly rostrate, 3–5 mm long, 4–5 mm wide; hypanthium obconical, 3–4 mm long, 4–5 mm wide. Fruits obconical, 5–7 mm long, 4–7 mm wide; disc broad, ±level; valves 3 or 4, level or slightly exserted.