Tree to 5 m. Bark powdery, orange-white, sometimes black-spotted. Juvenile leaves decussate, petiolate, orbicular, concolorous. Adult leaves alternate, petiolate; elliptic to broadly lanceolate, apiculate, thin, lamina 5–7 cm long, 1–2 cm wide, dull light green, concolorous; lateral veins faint, at 35°–50°; intramarginal vein up to 1 mm from margin; petiole terete, 9–20 mm long. Umbels 7–9-flowered; peduncle terete, 2–4 mm long; pedicels absent or terete, to 2 mm long. Mature buds not seen, but immature buds clavate to ovoid; operculum shorter than hypanthium. Fruits cylindrical, sometimes slightly contracted to form a short neck, 3–5 mm long, 3–4 mm wide; disc steeply descending; valves 3 or 4, level or slighly exserted.