Tree to 15 m, sometimes straggly. Bark smooth, grey or pink-white, sometimes scaly at base of trunk. Juvenile leaves oblong or broadly lanceolate, grey-green. Adult leaves lanceolate, acuminate, thick; lamina 10–15 cm long, 2–4 cm wide, grey-green; lateral veins faint, at 35°–45°; intramarginal vein up to 4 mm from margin; petiole terete, 20–23 mm long. Umbels 7-flowered; peduncle terete, 8–25 mm long; pedicels 5–8 mm long. Buds subglobular, rostrate, glaucous; operculum hemispherical, rostrate, striate, 8–10 mm long and wide; hypanthium hemispherical or obconical, 8–10 mm long wide. Fruits campanulate, striate, 12–15 mm long and wide, glaucous; valves 4 or 5, included or almost level.
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