Erect shrubs or trees 2-7 m tall. Bark smooth on upper branches, finely fissured at base. Hairs greyish to tawny, antrorsely spreading. Leaves narrowly elliptic to lanceolate, 6-14 cm long, 10-26 mm wide, flat, with recurved margins (often only slightly so), spreading to suberect, straight or rarely slightly falcate, twisted through 0-90°, innocuous, concolorous to slightly discolorous, not glaucous, glabrous to sparsely hairy when immature (but much denser on margins), glabrescent, smooth. Inflorescence usually auxotelic, 1-16-flowered; rachis 0-14 cm long. Flowers subtended by scale leaves; pedicels 2-6 mm long, erect, sparsely to densely hairy; tepals 12-13 mm long, acuminate to caudate, sparsely to moderately hairy on outside. Ovary moderately hairy; hairs greyish; ovule 1.