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.

Tree to 10-(13) m. tall; trunk to 6 dm. diam.; branches stout with smooth dark brown to almost black bark; branchlets rather stout, dark reddish brown. Sheaths ± 3 cm. long, gradually tapering into coriac. lamina narrowing regularly into subfiliform tip, ± 3-6 dm. × 4-5 cm.; margins smooth to very obscurely serrulate-crenulate. Panicle stout, terminal, strict, narrow-oblong; branches suberect, puberulous. Bracts close-set, obtuse, glab. or nearly so, ± orbicular. Fls subsessile, crowded; sepals oblong, us. glab., ± orbicular. Corolla rather broadly campanulate; tube ± = sepals, lobes reflexed. Anthers ± exserted. Styles stout; capsule ± 3 mm. diam.

2n = 26