Trees, up to 45 m tall trunk with a stocking of rough, greyish or brownish bark at the base, decorticating above in long strips leaving a smooth, white to cream or yellowish surface. Leaves alternate, petiole 2 – 3 cm long, channeled or flattened, lamina thick, lanceolate to narrowly lanceolate, 12 – 25 x 1.8 – 3 cm, acuminate, glossy, green, concolorous. Umbels axillary, 1(-3)-flowered, peduncle 0 – 4 mm long. Flowers sessile, rarely shortly pedicellate, c. 4 cm across, white to cream colored. Buds more or less turbinate, 1.5 to 2.2 cm long, warty-glaucous, conspicuously ribbed, much pruinose; operculum flattened, with a distinct central knob, 1 – 15 x 14 – 16 mm, warty; hypanthium 10 – 12 mm long, as wide as operculum. Fruits sessile or shortly stalked, subglobular to ± hemispherical, 10 – 20 x 14 – 24 mm, with 4 or sometimes more distinct ribs; disc broad, valves 4 or 5. Seeds flattened, ellipsoid, grey-brown to blackish-brown.