Trees, 15 – 21 m tall, with lax branches and foliage at ends of smaller branches. Bark rough, grey or dark-grey or brown-black, tasselated for 2 – 6 m, then smooth, red-brown to grey above. Leaves alternate, petiole 12 – 15 mm long, lamina lanceolate, 8 – 12 x 0.8 – 1.5 cm. Intramarginal veins almost confluent with leaf margins. Inflorescence axillary, simple, 7-flowered umbels on 5 – 20 mm long, angular, peduncles. Flowers sessile or on up to 2 mm long pedicels creamy white to pale yellow, c. 2 cm across. Buds ± cylindrical, 10 – 11 x 3 – 4 mm, with 3 – 4 x 2 – 3 mm, hemispherical, shortly rostrate calyptra; hypanthia more or less cylindrical, faintly striated, 5 – 6 mm long, 2 – 3 mm wide, occasionally constricted in the middle. Fruits cylindrical, 2-ribbed, 6 – 10 x 4 – 5 mm, sessile to shortly pedicellate; disc broad, steeply descending; valves 3 (-4), deeply enclose. Seeds flattened, elliptic to crescent-shaped, light brown.