Tree to 25 m. Bark smooth throughout, white to grey or somewhat yellow. Juvenile leaves broadly ovate to suborbicular, connate, glaucous. Adult leaves broadly lanceolate to elliptic-lanceolate, acuminate or uncinate, usually thin; lamina 5.5–13 cm long, 0.9–2.5 cm wide, grey-green or glaucous; lateral veins just visible to faint, at 15°–25°; intramarginal vein 1–2 mm from margin; petiole terete or angular, 7–12 mm long. Umbels with 11–15 or more flowers; peduncle terete, 6–15 mm long; pedicels usually 1–5 mm long. Operculum hemispherical, sometimes apiculate, glaucous, 1–2 mm long, 3–4 mm wide; hypanthium obconical, glaucous, 2–4 mm long, 3–4 mm wide. Fruits subpyriform, obconical or hemispherical, glaucous, 6–11 mm long and wide; disc broad, level or descending; valves usually 4, ±level.