Tree usually to 10 m, sometimes to 18 m. Bark rough throughout, fibrous, compact, grey, somewhat furrowed or more or less tessellated. Juvenile leaves alternate, ovate or broadly lanceolate, grey-green, concolorous. Adult leaves lanceolate, slightly falcate, acuminate; lamina 12–25 cm long, 1.7–3 cm wide, grey-green; lateral veins faint, at 35°–50°; intramarginal vein up to 1 mm from margin; petiole terete, 10–16 mm long. Umbels 7-flowered; peduncle terete or slightly flattened, 20–25 mm long; pedicels 4–8 mm long. Buds fusiform; operculum conical, 6–8 mm long and wide; hypanthium obconical, 5–8 mm long and wide. Fruits cylindrical or campanulate, sometimes 3-or 4-ribbed, 5–10 mm long, 6–10 mm wide; disc broad, descending; valves 4 or 5, ±level or clearly exserted.
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