Beautiful trees, 15 – 20 (-30) m tall, with 8 – 20 m wide, lush green, umbrella-shaped crown. Bark smooth, shed seasonally in large patches or flakes to leave a smooth, satiny, coppery or salmon-colored surface, eventually weathering to grey or grey-brown. Leaves alternate, petiole terete, 2 – 5 mm long, lamina ± falcate, lanceolate to narrowly lanceolate, (5.5 –) 6 – 11 (-12) x 0.6 – 1.5 cm. Inflorescence simple, axillary, 7 – 11(-13)-flowered umbels, on 5 – 14 mm long peduncles. Pedicels 2-5 mm long. Flowers white to cream. Buds ovoid to almost globular-clavate, 5 – 7 mm long, with hemispherical and apiculate or rounded conical, 3 – 4 mm long and broad calyptra; hypanthium hemispherical or ± obconical, 2 – 3 x 3 – 4 mm. Fruits hemispherical, 3 – 5 x 4 – 5 mm; disc narrow, descending vertically; valves 3 (-4), erect, exserted, often with style remnants intact. Seeds flattened-ovoid or elliptic, reticulate, grey or grey-brown.