Mallet to 10 m tall. Lignotuber absent.Bark smooth throughout, mottled silvery grey to light grey over cream bark, shedding in strips.Branchlets lack oil glands in the pith.Juvenile growth (coppice or field seedlings to 50 cm): not seen.Adult leaves alternate, petioles 0.7–1.7 cm long; blade lanceolate, 4.5–9.5 cm long, 0.6–1.6 cm wide, base tapering to petiole, margin entire, apex finely pointed, concolorous, glossy, dark green, side-veins acute, reticulation moderate, intramarginal vein close to margin, oil glands sparse, intersectional. New young leaf growth red-purple. Inflorescence axillary unbranched, pendulous, peduncles 0.6–1.5 cm long, buds 7, 9 or 11 per umbel, pedicels 0.3–0.7 cm long. Mature buds ovoid with shallow ribs on hypanthium only, 1.1–1.5 cm long, 0.4–0.5 cm wide, scar present, operculum narrowly conical, not ribbed, stamens inflexed, anthers cuboid, versatile, dorsifixed, dehiscing by longitudinal slits, style long and straight, stigma blunt to ± tapered, locules 3(4), the placentae each with 4 vertical rows of ovules. Flowers creamy white. Fruit on down-turned peduncles, pedicellate (pedicels 0.3–0.7 cm long), truncate-globose and somewhat flattened, 0.5–0.6 cm long, 0.6–0.7 cm wide, not ribbed, staminophore persistent and obscuring the vertically descending disc, valves 3(4), exserted and fragile. Seeds brown to grey-brown, 1–2.5 mm long, ovoid or flattened-ovoid, dorsal surface smooth or very shallowly reticulate and sometimes with longitudinal furrows dorsally, hilum ventral.Cultivated seedlings (measured at ca node 10): not grown (data from Nicolle, ibid.) cotyledons Y-shaped (bisected); leaves opposite, shortly petiolate, linear becoming disjunct, petiolate, elliptical, to 2.8 cm long, to 1 cm wide, blue-green, dull.
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