Tree to 12 m. Bark smooth throughout, white-grey, grey-yellow or yellow-brown. Juvenile leaves opposite, sessile, orbicular, crenulate, amplexicaul, often emarginate, shining, green, slightly discolorous. Adult leaves alternate, broadly lanceolate or lanceolate, acute, thick; lamina 5–9 cm long, 1.3–2.5 cm wide, green or slightly glaucous, concolorous; lateral veins faint, at 45°–50°; intramarginal vein up to 2 mm from margin; petiole terete, 13–25 mm long. Umbels 3-flowered; peduncle angular, 8–20 mm long, recurved in the fruiting stage; pedicels 2–7 mm long. Buds urceolate, often glaucous; operculum flattened-hemispherical, slightly rostrate, 2–4 mm long, 5–6 mm wide; hypanthium urceolate, 6–8 mm long, 5–6 mm wide. Fruits urceolate, often glaucous, 10–16 mm long, 8–10 mm wide; disc broad, descending; valves 3 or 4, included.
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