Trees 25 – 30 m tall, with hanging shoots. Bark smooth throughout, usually white, cream, sometimes pink or coppery. Juvenile leaves alternate, ovate to broadly lanceolate, 14 – 21 x 4.5 – 8 cm, some pale green and peltate, setose, glabrous and glossy later. Adult leaves alternate, petioles 1.3 – 2 cm, flattened; lamina lanceolate to narrowly lanceolate, 8 – 16 x 0.5 – 1.8 (-2) cm, lateral veins faintly visible, long acuminate, strongly lemon-scented when crushed. Inflorescence axillary, corymb-like panicle of 3-flowered umbels on 3 – 7 mm long, terete peduncles. Flowers white, pedicels 1 – 6 mm long, terete. Buds clavate, 7 – 10 x 4 – 6 mm with 3 – 4 x 4 – 5 mm, apiculate calyptra; hypanthium hemispherical, 5 – 6 x 4 – 5 mm. Fruits ovoid or urceolate, 7 – 15 x 7 – 11 mm, often warted.; disc broad, descending, valves 3 or 4, deeply included or enclosed. Seeds boat-shaped, reddish black.