Tree to 25 m, often leaning; stems glaucous. Bark fibrous, fissured, dark grey to black to 4 m, then smooth above, white or yellow-white, with insect ‘scribbles’. Juvenile leaves broadly lanceolate, blue-green. Adult leaves lanceolate, acuminate; lamina 13–19 cm long, 1.5–3 cm wide, green; lateral veins clearly visible, at 10°–15°; intramarginal vein up to 3 mm from margin; petiole terete, 25–35 mm long. Umbels more than 20-flowered; peduncle flattened, 16–28 mm long, often recurved in fruit; pedicels slender, 6–10 mm long. Buds glaucous; operculum hemispherical or conical, 1–2 mm long, 2–3 mm wide; hypanthium obconical, 3–4 mm long, 2–3 mm wide. Fruits globular, 9–10 mm long and wide, with narrow orifice, usually glaucous; disc vertical, descending; valves 3–5, included. Seeds black.
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