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Leaves shiny above, paler and greyish beneath, ± lanceolate, up to 12.5 cm long and 3.2 cm wide, 3–4 times as long as broad, tapering to an acute apex with a mucronate tip and tapering to a ± decurrent base; venation clearly visible on both surfaces and prominent on the upper surface, secondary veins subparallel and connected by intramarginal loops; surface glabrous above except for a dense covering of spreading hairs on the base of the midrib, lower surface with short appressed hairs becoming denser towards the base, also with longer spreading grey hairs towards the base especially on the midrib.
Spikes usually dense, up to 15 cm long but usually shorter to about 9 cm, terminal; peduncle somewhat ridged, usually densely pubescent to tomentose; bracts subtending flowers very small, cupuliform.
Perianth cream with a greenish or slight brown tinge, 0.9–1.1 mm long, pubescent on the outside with appressed hairs becoming denser towards the shortly bulbous apex.
Usually a small tree up to 12 m in height, with a rounded or pyramidal crown.
Young branchlets densely grey pubescent, with some spreading hairs.
Hypogynous scales deltoid, less than 1 mm long.
Anthers 2 mm long.
