Tree to 20 m. Bark rough, fibrous on trunk and usually extending throughout, brown or grey-brown. Juvenile leaves broadly ovate, green, slightly discolorous. Adult leaves elliptic to broadly lanceolate, undulate, acute; lamina 6–10 cm long, 2.5–3 cm wide, green; lateral veins just visible, at 20°–35°; intramarginal vein up to 2 mm from margin; petiole terete, 15–20 mm long. Umbels 7-flowered; peduncle terete or quadrangular, 5–8 mm long; pedicels 2–4 mm long. Buds ovoid; operculum conical, 2–3 mm long and wide; hypanthium obconical, c. 2 mm long, 2–3 mm wide. Fruits obconical to hemispherical, 4–5 mm long and wide; disc narrow, level; valves 3 or 4, slightly exserted.
Grows in alluvial soil often over clay, in valleys and nearbyslopes in open woodland, now mostly cleared for pastoral use.
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