Tree to 18 m. Bark white, sometimes blue-white or pink-white. Juvenile leaves subopposite, broadly ovate, green, slightly discolorous. Adult leaves alternate, narrowly lanceolate to lanceolate, acuminate, thin; lamina 6–10 cm long, 1–1.6 cm wide, shining, green, concolorous; lateral veins faint, at 30°–45°; intramarginal vein almost confluent with margin; petiole terete, 8–12 mm long. Umbels 7-flowered; peduncle terete, 5–10 mm long; pedicels terete, 2–3 mm long. Buds ovoid or turbinate; operculum usually conical, 2–3 mm long, c. 3 mm wide; hypanthium obconical, c. 3 mm long and wide. Fruits hemispherical to ovoid, 3–4 mm long and wide; disc descending; valves 3 or 4, level or slightly exserted.