Tree to 15 m tall, branching low; bark smooth. Juvenile leaves sessile, opposite for few pairs then petiolate, alternate, lanceolate, to 10 cm long, 2 cm wide, glossy, green; adult leaves petiolate, alternate, narrowly lanceolate, 9–14 cm long, 1–1.5 cm wide, concolorous, glossy, green; reticulation sparse, main veins almost parallel and acute at base, with numerous island oil glands. Inflorescences axillary, unbranched; peduncles obscure or to 0.5 cm long, 7–many-flowered; buds in stellate clusters, sessile, fusiform, to 0.8 cm long, 0.2 cm diam., no scar (single operculum); operculum acutely conical; stamens irregularly flexed; anthers dorsifixed, reniform; ovules in 2 vertical rows; flowers white. Fruit sessile, truncate-globose, to 0.7 cm long, 0.7 cm diam.; disc level; valves 3, rim level; seed dark brown, glossy, smooth, pyramidal but distorted by one curved face, hilum terminal. Flowers Nov.–Jan.
