Trees, up to 35 – 45 m tall. Bark smooth throughout, shedding in patches. Juvenile leaves opposite for a few pairs, then alternate, ovate, 5 – 14 x 3.5 – 8 cm, a few peltate, glabrous, glossy. Petiole of adult leaves 2 – 3 cm long; lamina, lanceolate, 10 – 18 x 1 – 3 cm green, concolorous, strongly 5-nerved, glabrous, acuminate. Inflorescence usually a terminal panicle of (3-)-7-flowered umbels on up to 7 mm long, almost terete peduncles. Flowers white, on 3 – 4 mm long pedicels, c. 1 cm across. Buds ovoid-conical, (7-) 8 – 10 x 4 – 6 mm, with hemispherical, 4 – 5 x 5 – 8 mm, shortly apiculate calyptra, hypanthium hemispherical, 6 – 8 mm long. Fruits globoid-urceolate to ovoid-urceolate, 11 – 15 x 8 – 10 mm, trilocular, with 2 – 3 mm wide disc. Seeds glossy, red-brown.