Tree to 18 m. Bark smooth throughout, grey to white or yellow-green. Juvenile leaves opposite, sessile or shortly petiolate, elliptic or ovate to orbicular, crenulate, green, slightly discolorous. Adult leaves alternate, lanceolate to broadly lanceolate, subcrenulate, acuminate; lamina 6–10 cm long, 1.5–2.5 cm wide, shining, green, concolorous; lateral veins at 25°–35°; intramarginal vein up to 2 mm from margin; petiole terete, 15–25 mm long. Umbels 3-flowered; peduncle terete, 2–6 mm long; pedicels absent or to 2 mm long. Buds ovoid, slightly wrinkled; operculum hemispherical to conical, 3–4 mm long, 4–5 mm wide; hypanthium campanulate, 3–4 mm long, 4–5 mm wide. Fruits hemispherical to campanulate, sessile, sometimes 2-ribbed, 5–8 mm long and wide; disc narrow to moderately broad, descending; valves 3 or 4, level or exserted.
Mountain tops, on steep, exposed ridges, on steep and moderate slopes and on plateaux; at elevations from 550-1,200 metres.
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Grows in montaneareas on exposed ridges, plateaus and slopes in humus or yellow podsolic soil,in subalpine woodland.
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