Tree to 25 m. Bark rough, hard, shallowly furrowed, grey-black, on trunk and larger branches. Juvenile leaves petiolate, linear or falcate, green. Adult leaves narrowly lanceolate to falcate, acute or uncinate; lamina 6–10 cm long, 1–1.9 cm wide, shining, bright green, concolorous; lateral veins dense, fine, clearly visible at 40°–45°; intramarginal vein up to 1.5 mm from margin; petiole terete or channelled, 11–20 mm long. Conflorescence axillary, simple, or terminal, apparently compound; peduncle terete to quadrangular, 5–12 mm long; pedicels 3–5 mm long, buds globular to rhomboidal, but fusiform when immature; operculum hemispherical, c. 2 mm long, c. 4 mm wide; hypanthium hemispherical, c. 3 mm long, c. 4 mm wide. Fruits hemispherical, obconical or campanulate, 3–5 mm long, 3–6 mm wide; disc narrow, descending; valves 4–6, included to slightly exserted. Seeds rounded, flattish, light brown, slightly reticulate.
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