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Leaves aromatic with a camphor-like scent, membranous to coriaceous, discolorous drying brownish above and silvery-white or greyish on the lower surface; petiole 0.5–2.0 cm long, tomentose to glabrescent; lamina (2.5)4.5–14(17) x (2)2.5–6(7.5) cm, ovate to elliptic, acuminate or sometimes acute or obtuse at the apex, rounded to truncate rarely subcordate or cuneate at the base, entire; upper surface glossy dark green and ± puberulous especially on the midrib and nerves, or glabrous; lower surface silvery-white pruinose and ± puberulous, at least on the midrib and nerves, rarely glabrescent; lateral nerves in 6–8(9) pairs, slightly raised above, prominent beneath; tertiary nerves net-veined, ± inconspicuous above.
Stamens 9 in 3 whorls, with staminodes forming a fourth (innermost) whorl; filaments of the first and second (the outer) whorls short and broad, flattened, their anthers 1.0–1.5 mm long, elliptic-rectangular, obtuse at the apex and dehiscing introrsely; filaments of the third whorl ± square, pilose, with 2 shortly-stalked globose to ovate glands, the anthers oblong, a little longer than the others, truncate or emarginate, dehiscing extrorsely; staminodes (in the innermost whorl) c. 1 mm long, ovate-triangular, sessile or subsessile.
Inflorescence a panicle of cymes in the axils of subterminal leaves, panicles 3–13 cm long, ± lax, few to many-flowered, densely yellowish-brown pubescent; peduncle 2–8 cm long; bracts minute, ovate to ovate-lanceolate, soon falling.
Flowers small, yellowish, densely pubescent; pedicels 1–4 mm long; receptacle 1 mm long, broadly obconical, glabrous within; tepals 2–3 mm long, elliptic to ovate-elliptic, obtuse to rounded at the apex, pubescent within.
Bark purplish-grey, rough when old and flaking in small rounded or rectangular scales; wood aromatic with a camphor-like scent when freshly cut, slash a light reddish-brown, becoming darker with exposure.
Young branches and twigs slender, angular and finely longitudinally striate towards the ends, ± densely fulvous-pubescent or tomentose, sometimes glabrescent.
A medium to large evergreen tree 15–30(40) m high, with a dense crown and a stout straight bole up to 10 m high, buttressed at the base.
Fruit orange-brownish, up to 10 x 6 mm, ellipsoid, the lower one third enclosed in the accrescent ± fleshy receptacle.
Ovary 1.0–1.5 mm long, ovoid, glabrous; style short thick glabrous; stigma subpeltate.
