Tree to 15 m. Bark smooth throughout, grey or white, sometimes mottled with yellow or orange-yellow, usually with insect ‘scribbles’. Juvenile leaves broadly lanceolate, shining, green, slightly discolorous. Adult leaves lanceolate, falcate, acuminate, oblique, thick; lamina 7.5–13 cm long, 1.3–2 cm wide, shining, green, concolorous; lateral veins faint, at 15°–25°; intramarginal vein 1–2 mm from margin; petiole thick, flattened or channelled, 8–15 mm long. Umbels 3-flowered, rarely 7-flowered; peduncle flattened, 3–6 mm long; pedicels absent. Buds cylindrical-clavate, angled due to crowding; operculum hemispherical or conical, 2–3 mm long, 3–5 mm wide; hypanthium cylindrical or hemispherical, 3–4 mm long, 3–5 mm wide, warty. Fruits usually subglobular or suburceolate, sometimes hemispherical, 7–10 mm long, 7–9 mm wide; disc narrow to moderately broad, level or descending; valves 4 or 5, included. Seeds brown.
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