Tree to 25 m. Bark fibrous, grey-brown on trunk and larger branches, or almost smooth throughout, grey, cream or pink. Juvenile leaves orbicular, emarginate, dull, grey-green, concolorous. Adult leaves ovate to broadly lanceolate, apiculate; lamina 5.5–9 cm long, 1.5–3.5 cm wide, grey or glaucous; lateral veins clearly visible, at 20°–40°; intramarginal vein up to 4 mm from margin; petiole terete or flattened, 15–25 mm long. Conflorescence terminal, paniculate; peduncle terete, 5–10 mm long; pedicels 2–5 mm long. Buds clavate to fusiform, glaucous; operculum conical, 1–2 mm long, c. 2 mm wide; hypanthium obovoid to obconical, c. 3 mm long and wide. Fruits obconical to pyriform, often glaucous, 4–7 mm long, 3–6 mm wide; disc broad.
Tree to 25 m with grey-brown fibrous bark on trunk and larger branches or smooth bark throughout.. Juvenile leaves round, emarginate; adult grey or glaucous, ovate to broadly lanceolate, 5.5–9 cm long, 1.5–3.5 cm wide with intramarginal vein up to 4 mm from the margin; petiole terete or flattened, 1.5–2.5 cm long.. Umbels 7-flowered, in terminal panicles; peduncle terete, 5–10 mm long, pedicels 2–5[7] mm long.. Buds clavate to fusiform, glaucous; operculum conical, 1–2 mm long, ± 2 mm wide.. Calyx-tube obovoid to obconical, ± 3 mm long and wide.. Fruits obconical to pyriform, 4–7 mm long, 3–6 mm wide, often glaucous with broad descending disc and 3–4 included valves.. Fig. 9/31, p. 45.