Large tree; bark persistent, rather soft and fibrous on trunk, smooth and whitish on branches. Juvenile lvs sessile, amplexicaul, discolorous. Adult lvs with stout petioles 1-1.5 cm long; lamina to 15 × 2.5 cm, narrow-lanceolate, coriaceous, ± concolorous, with distinct intramarginal vein and with numerous, parallel lateral veins diverging at angles of 30-50° to midrib; base ± symmetric; apex long-subulate-acuminate. Umbels axillary, of 7-11 fls; peduncles 1-2 cm long, stout, compressed; pedicels c. 0.5 cm long. Buds c. 8 mm long, yellowish green; operculum ± rostrate, = hypanthium. Stamens whitish; anthers reniform. Fr. pedicellate, 8-11 × 11-14 mm, hemispheric; valves 4, slightly sunken or at rim level; disc 1-2 mm wide, flat or obliquely descending.