Trees, 20 – 25 m tall, with spreading, irregular branches from above middle of straight trunk. Bark rough, shortly fibrous, stringy and spongy, red-brown, persistent to the small branches. Leaves alternate, petiole 2 – 3.5 cm long, lamina broadly lanceolate, 10 – 16 x 2.7 – 4.5 cm, green. Inflorescence axillary, (7-) 9 – 15-flowered umbels on 1.3 – 3 cm long, broadly flattened or strap-shaped peduncles. Flowers on (0-) 1 – 9 mm long, angular to terete pedicels. Buds ± fusiform, 16 – 24 x 6 – 8 mm, with a conical, rostrate, 10 – 12 mm long, 6 – 8 mm wide operculum, hypanthium obconical, faintly ribbed, 6 – 7 mm long, as wide as operculum. Fruits usually pedicellate, cylindrical or constricted in the middle, 10 – 18 x 6 – 11 mm; disc descending, valves 3 or 4, below rim level or slightly exserted with usually coherent tips across orifice. Seeds pyramidal, brown.