Up to 40 m tall tree with moderately dense crown. Bark rough, fibrous and persistent on trunk and lower parts of branches, brown to grey-brown, thick, longitudinally furrowed, upper branches whitish by shedding smooth bark, branchlets cream to reddish. Leaves alternate, petiole 2 – 3 cm long, ± stiff, lamina broadly lanceolate, 10 - 16 x 2.5 - 4 cm, glossy and dark green above, pale-green beneath, apices acute. Inflorescence simple, axillary, umbel 7-11- flowered on broadly flattened, 7 – 15 mm long peduncles. Buds ± cylindrical to club-shaped, 6 – 11 x 4 – 6 mm, sessile or shortly stalked, hypanthium often ribbed, 4 – 6 mm long, with conical, 3 – 5 mm long calyptra. Flowers c. 2 cm across, white to cream. Fruit sessile or stalk up to 3 mm, cylindrical or barrel-shaped, (8-) 10 - 12 x 8 – 9 mm; disc descending, valves 3 or 4, included or level. Seeds cuboid, ± flattened, brown.