Tree to 12 m. Bark smooth, green, grey, white, red or yellow, with some older trees having up to 2 m of dark grey fibrous bark at base. Juvenile leaves lanceolate, shining, green, discolorous. Adult leaves lanceolate or narrowly lanceolate, falcate, uncinate, slightly crenulate, oblique, thick; lamina 8.5–10 cm long, 1.2–1.5 cm wide, shining, green, concolorous; lateral veins faint, at 15°–30°; intramarginal vein prominent, up to 1 mm from margin; petiole flattened, 5–10 mm long. Umbels 7-flowered; peduncle terete or flattened, 5–8 mm long; pedicels 2–3 mm long. Buds clavate; operculum conical, 1–3 mm long, 2–3 mm wide; hypanthium obconical, 3–4 mm long, 2–3 mm wide. Fruits subglobular, 5–6 mm long, 6–7 mm wide; disc narrow to moderately broad, descending; valves 3, included. Seeds brown.
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