Tree to 17 m. Bark rough throughout, brown-grey to dark grey, deeply fissured. Juvenile leaves broadly lanceolate to ovate, light green, slightly discolorous. Adult leaves narrowly lanceolate, sometimes falcate, acute; lamina 7.5–13 cm long, 1–2 cm wide, glaucous; lateral veins faint, at 40°–50°; intramarginal vein up to 1 mm from margin; petiole 6–10 mm long. Conflorescence axillary and terminal panicles, and some axillary umbels; umbels 7-flowered; peduncle terete, 10–18 mm long; pedicels 2–5 mm long. Buds fusiform, sometimes glaucous; operculum conical, 2–4 mm long, c. 3 mm wide; hypanthium obconical, 3–4 mm long, c. 3 mm wide. Fruits ovoid, sometimes glaucous, 5–8 mm long, 4–5 mm wide; disc narrow, steeply descending; valves 4 or 5, included.