Rather slender tree up to c. 10 m. tall with smooth dark grey bark; branches slender, bark brown. Lvs thick, coriac., densely clustered towards tips of branchlets; sheath ± 5 × 4 cm., gradually tapering into lamina ± 5-6 dm. × 2.5-3 cm.; margins smooth or nearly so, apex acuminate. Panicle very stout, terminal, erect, ± conical, 20-30 × 10 cm.; branches stout, at wide angle to axis, again several times branched, branchlets up to ± 3 cm. long. Fls? Capsule ± 2 mm. diam., depressed-globose, shortly pedicelled to sessile, invested by persistent broadly ovate-oblong ciliate sepals c. 1·5 mm. long.