Tree to 12 m tall, sometimes branching near ground level. Forming a lignotuber.Bark rough to small branchlets, thick, deeply fissured, dark grey. Branchlets lacking oil glands in the pith. Juvenile growth (coppice or field seedlings to 50 cm): not seen by us; Hopper & Wardell-Johnson (ibid.) state "coppice leaves ovate, acute".Adult leaves alternate, petioles 1.2–2.5 cm long; blade lanceolate to falcate, 8.8–18 cm long, 1.5–3 cm wide, base tapering to petiole, margin entire, apex finely pointed, discolorous, glossy, darker green above, side-veins at about 45° to midrib, reticulation dense uncertain, intramarginal vein close to margin. Inflorescence axillary unbranched, peduncles ± terete, 0.9–1.8 cm long, buds ?7 up to 11 and 13 per umbel, pedicels 0.3–0.5 cm long. Mature buds ovoid, 0.6–1 cm long, 0.4–0.7 cm wide, scar present (outer operculum shed early), operculum conical, stamens inflexed, anthers ± oblong, versatile, sub-basifixed, dehiscing by longitudinal slits, style long and straight, stigma tapered to blunt, locules 4, the placentae each with 4 vertical rows of ovules. Flower colour unknown. Fruit pedicellate (pedicels 0.2–0.5 cm long), hemispherical to broadly obconical or cupular, 0.4–0.6 cm long, 0.7–0.8 cm wide, disc raised and ± oblique or level, valves 4, strongly exserted. Seeds grey-brown to brown, 1–2 mm long, flattened-ovoid, dorsal surface shallowly reticulate, hilum ventral.Cultivated seedling (measured at node 10): not grown.
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