Tree to 15 m. Bark rough, fibrous throughout, compact, subtessellated, grey. Juvenile leaves alternate, lanceolate to broadly lanceolate, grey-green, concolorous. Adult leaves lanceolate or narrowly lanceolate, acute; lamina 9–16 cm long, 1–2 cm wide, green or grey-green; lateral veins faint, at 40°–50°; intramarginal vein up to 1 mm from margin; petiole channelled or terete, 10–25 mm long. Umbels 7-flowered; peduncle terete, 5–13 mm long; pedicels 3–7 mm long. Buds pyriform or obovoid, rostrate; operculum rostrate, 2–3 mm long, c. 3 mm wide; hypanthium subpyriform, 2–3 mm long, c. 3 mm wide. Fruits subovoid to hemispherical, thin-walled, 4–7 mm long, 4–6 mm wide; disc broad, steeply descending; valves 3 or 4, included to just exserted.
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