Tree to 40 m tall; bark rough to small branches, fibrous, fissured, grey, shedding in short ribbons. Juvenile leaves sessile, opposite for many pairs, broadly lanceolate to ovate, cordate or deltoid, to 7 cm long, 4.5 cm wide, discolorous, dull, grey-green or green; adult leaves petiolate, alternate, narrowly lanceolate to falcate, 9–18 cm long, 1–2.5 cm wide, concolorous, light green; reticulation moderate to dense, with mostly island oil glands. Inflorescences axillary, unbranched; peduncles to 1 cm long, 7-flowered; buds sessile to shortly pedicellate, ovoid, to 0.5 cm long, 0.35 cm diam., scar present; operculum conical to beaked; stamens inflexed; anthers versatile, dorsifixed, oblong; ovules in 4 vertical rows; flowers white. Fruit sessile or pedicellate, obconical, to 0.5 cm long, 0.6 cm wide; disc slightly raised; valves 3 or 4, slightly exserted; seed brown-black, flattened-ovoid, lacunose, hilum ventral. Jan.–May
