Trees, 15 – 20 m tall, with 8 – 15 m wide, rounded, thin or dense crown from a short and crooked trunk. Bark fibrous, flakey, grey to black, persistent on the trunk and smaller branches but secondary and tertiary branches smooth and whitish. Juvenile leaves alternate, lanceolate to broadly lanceolate, 7 – 15 x 0.4 – 4 cm, green to grey-green, slightly discolorous. Leaves alternate, terete. Petioles 8 – 15 (-17) mm long, lamina linear-lanceolate to broadly lanceolate, 8 – 16(-17) x (0.8-) 1 – 2.5 cm. Inflorescence a terminal panicle of (3-) 7-flowered umbels on terete, 4 – 9 mm long peduncles. Flowers white, rarely pink or red, c. 1 cm across. Buds ovoid, rarely fusiform, 3 – 4 x 2 – 3 mm, with hemispeherical, apiculate or conical 1 – 2 mm long calyptra, hypanthium obconical, c. 2 mm long, often glaucous. Fruits hemispherical or obconical, 2.5 – 5 x 4 – 7 mm, thin walled; disc very narrow, ascending if present; valves 3 or 4, strongly exserted. Seeds ovoid, and slightly angular to flattened ovoid, reddish brown to yellowish brown..